Vulnerability and social class: Differential patterns of personality and social support over the social classes

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 229-237

  Ranchor, Adelita V ^a   Bouma, Jelte ^a   Sanderman, Robbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0001457923     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(95)00156-5     Document Type: Article

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