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Original Articles

Measurement Equivalence/Invariance of the Abusive Supervision Measure Across Workers From Taiwan and the United States

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Pages 111-131 | Received 05 May 2010, Accepted 17 Nov 2010, Published online: 02 Feb 2011

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