Religious beliefs and mental health: Applications and extensions of the stress process model

The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 179-201

  Schieman, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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