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Articles

The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA): Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance in a Chinese Student Samples

Pages 774-783 | Received 29 Mar 2021, Accepted 14 Nov 2021, Published online: 28 Dec 2021

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