The Religious Support Scale: Construction, Validation, and Cross-Validation

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  American Journal of Community Psychology

• Publication date

  2002-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1023/A:1020264718397PMID 12385482
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