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Original Articles

The role of social support on resilience, posttraumatic growth, hopelessness, and depression among children of HIV-infected parents in mainland China

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Pages 1526-1533 | Received 07 Jul 2013, Accepted 08 May 2014, Published online: 12 Jun 2014

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