Kindness Counts: Prompting Prosocial Behavior in Preadolescents Boosts Peer Acceptance and Well-Being

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Layous, Kristin ^a   Nelson, S Katherine ^a   Oberle, Eva ^b   Schonert Reichl, Kimberly A ^b   Lyubomirsky, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BULLYING; CANADA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; TEACHER;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84871564159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051380     Document Type: Article

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