Hope, Friends, and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Network Approach to Peer Group Contextual Effects

Child Development

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 642-650

  Parker, Philip D ^a   Ciarrochi, Joseph ^a   Heaven, Patrick ^a   Marshall, Sarah ^a   Sahdra, Baljinder ^a   Kiuru, Noona ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; FRIEND; HOPE; HUMAN; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HOPE; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84925356317     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12308     Document Type: Article

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