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Research in stress, coping, and health: theoretical and methodological issues1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Jeffrey R. Edwards  and
Cary L. Cooper
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 1988 , pp. 15 - 20
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