Coping strategies of Taiwanese widows adapting to loss

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Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 269-288

  Hsu, Min Tao ^a   Kahn, David L ^b  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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