Positive Mental Well-being in Australian Adolescents: Evaluating the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale
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عنوان ژورنال: The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0816-5122,1839-2504
DOI: 10.1017/edp.2015.12