Personality characteristics of depressed or alcoholic adult children of alcoholics

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 559-567

  Beaudoin, Carole M ^a,b   Murray, Robert P ^a   Bond Jr , John ^a   Barnes, Gordon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

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EID: 0031256376     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00080-9     Document Type: Article

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