The best friend and friendship group influence on adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 993-1004

  You, Jianing ^a   Lin, Min Pei ^b   Fu, Kei ^c   Leung, Freedom ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Friendship; Nonsuicidal self injury; Peer influence; Peer selection; Peer socialization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CHILD; FEMALE; FRIEND; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEER GROUP; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 84880280014     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-013-9734-z     Document Type: Article

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