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Research Article

Psychometric properties of the Teenage Executive Functioning Inventory in a Turkish sample of adolescents: deficits in working memory and inhibition among adolescents

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Pages 321-339 | Received 23 Jun 2021, Accepted 02 Jun 2022, Published online: 13 Jun 2022

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