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Italian Adaptation and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Full and the Short Form of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory

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Pages 12-22 | Received 02 Aug 2012, Accepted 01 Sep 2012, Published online: 04 Oct 2013

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