Links between girls’ puberty and externalizing and internalizing behaviors: Moving from demonstrating effects to identifying pathways

Developmental Psychobiology of Aggression

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 87-114

  Graber, Julia A ^a   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^b   Archibald, Andrea B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Teachers College and College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511499883.006     Document Type: Chapter

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