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A community of singers: employing exploratory cluster analysis to reveal profiles of psychosocial characteristics among members of a street choir for homeless and formerly homeless individuals

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Pages 64-74 | Received 11 Sep 2017, Accepted 14 Feb 2018, Published online: 15 Mar 2018

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