Structure analysis of Antonovsky's sense of coherence from an epidemiological mental health survey with a brief nine-item sense of coherence scale
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1049-8931,1557-0657
DOI: 10.1002/mpr.197