Stress, optimism, resiliency, and cortisol with relation to digestive symptoms or diagnosis

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-138

  Armata, Pamela M ^a   Baldwin, Debora R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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