Hope and humor: Using the Hope Scale in outcome studies

Psychological Reports

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART 1, 1999, Pages 1014-1020

  Westburg, Nancy G ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0038131515     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.84.3.1014     Document Type: Article

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