Normative data for persons over 65 on the Penn State Worry Questionnaire

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-9

  Knight, Robert G ^a   McMahon, Jennifer ^a   Skeaff, C Murray ^a   Green, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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