The role of personality variables in predicting the reported physical symptoms of male and female college students

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Üstündağ, A Meltem Budak
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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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A. M. B. Üstündağ, “The role of personality variables in predicting the reported physical symptoms of male and female college students,” Middle East Technical University, 1999.
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