Arenas of comfort and conflict: peer relationship events and young people's educational attainment

Journal of Youth Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 646-664

  Smith, Jonathan F ^a   Skrbiš, Zlatko ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

arenas of comfort; life events; peer relationships; Schooling; youth transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945162551     PISSN: 13676261     EISSN: 14699680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2015.1098767     Document Type: Article

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