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No pain, no gain: cross-lagged analyses of posttraumatic growth and anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress and prolonged grief symptoms after loss

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Pages 231-243 | Received 29 May 2018, Accepted 18 Jan 2019, Published online: 22 Feb 2019

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