Do victimization experiences accentuate reactions to ostracism? An experiment using cyberball

International Journal of Developmental Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-32

  Ruggieri, Sabrina ^a   Bendixen, Mons ^b   Gabriel, Ute ^b   Alsaker, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

bullying; Cyberball; social exclusion; victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879806919     PISSN: 2192001X     EISSN: 21917485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/DEV-1312114     Document Type: Article

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