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İbrahim Taş1, Emine Göçet Tekin2, Ümmü Ertürk Yıldız3
1Psychology Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sakarya University, 54050, Serdivan/Sakarya, Turkey. ibrahimtas@sakarya.edu.tr.
The Psychiatric Quarterly
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No abstract available in PubMed .
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