On children's independent mobility: The interplay of demographic, environmental, and psychosocial factors

Children's Geographies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 109-122

  Alparone, Francesca Romana ^a   Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

children's independent mobility; children's outdoor mobility; potentiality of outdoor autonomy; social danger perception; structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858309646     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2011.638173     Document Type: Article

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