Resilience, hardiness, sense of coherence, and posttraumatic growth: All paths leading to "light at the end of the tunnel"?

Journal of Loss and Trauma

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 253-265

  Almedom, Astier M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 18444418301     PISSN: 15325024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15325020590928216     Document Type: Article

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