Classroom-level predictors of the social status of aggression: Friendship centralization, friendship density, teacher-student attunement, and gender

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1144-1155

  Ahn, Hai Jeong ^a   Rodkin, Philip C ^b  

^a Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Attunement; Gender; Hierarchy; Social status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923074645     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: 19392176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036091     Document Type: Article

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