The Longitudinal Interplay between Bullying, Victimization, and Social Status: Age-related and Gender Differences

Social Development

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 659-677

  Sentse, Miranda ^a,b   Kretschmer, Tina ^c   Salmivalli, Christina ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bullying; Cross lagged path models; Social status; Victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936986210     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12115     Document Type: Article

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