Continuing bonds in adjustment to bereavement: Impact of abrupt versus gradual separation

Personal Relationships

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-266

  Stroebe, Margaret S ^a   Abakoumkin, Georgios ^b   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^a   Schut, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

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EID: 84861480970     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: 14756811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2011.01352.x     Document Type: Article

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