Potential mediators of the relationship between gender and death anxiety

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-30

  Eshbaugh, Elaine ^a   Henninger, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

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