Unravelling gender composition effects on rule-breaking at school: a focus on study attitudes

Gender and Education

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 466-485

  Demanet, Jannick ^a   Vanderwegen, Pieter ^a   Vermeersch, Hans ^a   Van Houtte, Mieke ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

gender composition; gender gap; multilevel analysis; reference group theory; school misconduct; study attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879550548     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2013.772567     Document Type: Article

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