Social support, self-efficacy and assertiveness as mediators of student stress

Psychology and Education

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 61-69

  Newby Fraser, E ^a   Schlebusch, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATAL   (South Africa)

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