School Gender Culture and Student Subjective Well-Being.

This study explores the impact of school gender culture in the United States on boys' and girls' attachment to school and symptoms of depression. We consider multiple dimensions of school gender culture and hypothesize that student subjective well-being is lower in schools with a lower percentage of...

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Publicado en:Sex Roles Vol. 74; no. 1-2; pp. 62 - 78
Autores principales: Reynolds, John, Bamford, Melissa
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jan2016
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          Department of Sociology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-2270 USA
          Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis, Memphis 38152-3530 USA
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