"It must be me" or " It could be them?": The impact of the social network position of bullies and victims on victims' adjustment

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 379-386

  Huitsing, Gijs ^a   Veenstra, René ^a,b   Sainio, Miia ^b   Salmivalli, Christina ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Attributions; Bullying; Degree centralization; Victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872390632     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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