The development of adolescents' friendships and antipathies: A longitudinal multivariate network test of balance theory

Social Networks

Volumn 43, Issue , 2015, Pages 162-176

  Rambaran, J Ashwin ^a   Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis ^a   Munniksma, Anke ^b   Cillessen, Antonius H N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Antipathy; Balance theory; Friendship; Rejection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934990462     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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