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SPECIAL SECTION: PERSONALITY PATHOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN YOUTH: GUEST EDITORS: ROBERT D. LATZMAN AND LIZE VERBEKE

Capturing Between- and Within-Person Variability of Borderline Traits in Youth from a Developmentally Sensitive Situational Judgment Perspective

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Pages 499-507 | Received 13 Dec 2021, Accepted 13 Jun 2022, Published online: 10 Aug 2022

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