Teacher attunement to peer-nominated aggressors

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 263-272

  Dawes, Molly ^a   Chen, Chin Chih ^b   Zumbrunn, Sharon K ^b   Mehtaji, Meera ^b   Farmer, Thomas W ^a   Hamm, Jill V ^c  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; student characteristics; teacher attunement; teacher perceptions

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; STUDENT; TEACHER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL TEACHER;

AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; SCHOOL TEACHERS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 84996836108     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.21686     Document Type: Article

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