With Whom and Where You Play: Preschoolers' Social Context Predicts Peer Victimization

Social Development

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 357-375

  Andrews, Naomi C Z ^a   Hanish, Laura D ^a   Fabes, Richard A ^a   Martin, Carol Lynn ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior problems; Gender; Social interaction; Victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898862657     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12051     Document Type: Article

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