Tell the Teacher or Tell the Bully off: Children's Strategy Production for Bystanders to Bullying

Social Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 414-424

  Rock, Patrick F ^a   Baird, Jodie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bullying; Bystanders; Peer relations; Prosocial behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859631842     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2011.00627.x     Document Type: Article

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