Evolution of the coping strategies in an isolated group in an Antarctic base

Polar Record

Volumn 37, Issue 201, 2001, Pages 111-120

  Barbarito, Marta ^a   Baldanza, Simona ^b   Peri, Antonio ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO   (Argentina)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

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COPING STRATEGY;

EID: 0035045085     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247400026930     Document Type: Article

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