Social influence and bullying behavior: Intervention-based network dynamics of the fairplayer.manual bullying prevention program

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 309-319

  Wölfer, Ralf ^a   Scheithauer, Herbert ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bullying; Evaluation; Prevention; Social influence; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BULLYING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GIRL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; SKILL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; BULLYING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS;

EID: 84891785985     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.21524     Document Type: Article

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