Dispositional Cancer Worry: Convergent, Divergent, and Predictive Validity of Existing Scales
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0734-7332,1540-7586
DOI: 10.1080/07347332.2010.498459