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Lingling Xu1, Yanhui Zhou2, Qi Xue3
1Institute of China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education, Hangzhou Normal University (Key Research Center of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Zhejiang Province), Hangzhou, 311121, China.
BMC Psychology
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