Affective Social Competence in Adolescence: Current Findings and Future Directions

Social Development

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 3-20

  Booker, Jordan A ^a   Dunsmore, Julie C ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; context(s); emotion; social skills; theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968662341     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12193     Document Type: Article

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