Linear and nonlinear models of vulnerability to depression: Personality and postpartum depression in a high risk population

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-29

  Besser, Avi ^a   Priel, Beatriz ^b   Flett, Gordon L ^c   Wiznitzer, Arnon ^b  

^a SAPIR ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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