Promoting Inclusion Via Cross-Group Friendship: The Mediating Role of Change in Trust and Sympathy

Child Development

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2018, Pages e414-e430

  Grütter, Jeanine ^a   Gasser, Luciano ^a   Zuffianò, Antonio ^b   Meyer, Bertolt ^c  

^a University of Teacher Education Lucerne   (Germany)

^b LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; ROLE CHANGE; TRUST; ACADEMIC SUCCESS; ATTITUDE; CHILD; EMPATHY; FRIEND; HUMAN RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; SWITZERLAND;

ACADEMIC SUCCESS; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; STUDENTS; SWITZERLAND; TRUST;

EID: 85020543862     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12883     Document Type: Article

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