A meta-analysis of school-based bullying prevention programs' effects on bystander intervention behavior

School Psychology Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-65

  Polanin, Joshua R ^a   Espelage, Dorothy L ^b   Pigott, Therese D ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 84860598096     PISSN: 02796015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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