Conflict and Dominance Between Siblings as Predictors of Children’s Peer Victimization

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3623-3635

  Faith, Melissa A ^a,b   Elledge, L Christian ^c   Newgent, Rebecca A ^d   Cavell, Timothy A ^e  

^a CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bullying; Child; Peer; Peer victimization; Sibling; Sibling conflict; Sibling dominance; Social dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946489010     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-015-0171-1     Document Type: Article

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