Peers and Problem Behavior: Have We Missed Something?

Friends, Lovers and Groups: Key Relationships in Adolescence

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 125-153

  Kerr, Margaret ^a   Stattin, Håkan ^a   Kiesner, Jeff ^b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Common leisure interests; Friendship groups; Peers; Problem behavior; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889815469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713211.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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