Sociodemographic, sociocultural, and individual predictors of reported feelings of meaninglessness among South African adolescents

Psychological Reports

Volumn 95, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 1271-1278

  Morojele, Neo K ^a   Brook, Judith S ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 14644419488     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.95.3f.1271-1278     Document Type: Article

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