"Two for flinching": Children's and adolescents' narrative accounts of harming their friends and siblings

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1459-1474

  Recchia, Holly ^a   Wainryb, Cecilia ^b   Pasupathi, Monisha ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CONFLICT; EMOTION; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MORALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIBLING; SIBLING RELATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MORALS; NARRATION; SIBLING RELATIONS; SIBLINGS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84880377955     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12059     Document Type: Article

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