Reported earliest memory age: Relationships with personality and coping variables

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 135-142

  Caruso, John C ^a   Spirrison, Charles L ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030191561     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(96)00021-9     Document Type: Article

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