Differential Personality Correlates of Early Adolescents’ Bullying-Related Outsider and Defender Behavior

Journal of Early Adolescence

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1069-1091

  Pronk, Jeroen ^a   Olthof, Tjeert ^a   Goossens, Frits A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big Five; defenders; outsiders; Reinforcement Sensitivity; victimization by bullying

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944251642     PISSN: 02724316     EISSN: 15525449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272431614549628     Document Type: Article

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