Exploring compassion: a meta-analysis of the association between self-compassion and psychopathology.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Clinical Psychology Review

• Publication date

  2012-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cpr.2012.06.003PMID 22796446
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