Guilt: Elaboration of a multidimensional model

Psychological Record

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-90

  Kubany, Edward S ^a,b   Watson, Susan B ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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