How does cross‐sectional sampling bias our understanding of adolescent romantic relationships?: An agent‐based simulation.
Introduction: Adolescent romantic relationships are developmentally significant, but relatively brief and often disrupted by changes in context. Large individual differences and age‐related change make sampling complex. Most adolescents have multiple romantic relationships. Which should we sample? T...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Adolescence Vol. 95; no. 2; pp. 296 - 311 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2023
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