Individual and Classroom Social-Cognitive Processes in Bullying: A Short-Term Longitudinal Multilevel Study

Robert Thornberg1, Linda Wänström2, Shelley Hymel3

  • 1Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

Frontiers in Psychology
|August 17, 2019
PubMed

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