The life events scale for students: Validation for use with British samples

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 747-751

  Clements, Keith ^a   Turpin, Graham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030162639     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(96)00005-0     Document Type: Article

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