Teacher liking as an affective filter for the association between student behavior and peer status

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2017, Pages 250-262

  Hendrickx, Marloes M H G ^a   Mainhard, Tim ^a   Boor Klip, Henrike J ^b   Brekelmans, Mieke ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classroom norms; Peer reputation of teacher (dis)liking; Peer status; Student behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016052546     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2017.03.004     Document Type: Article

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