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The relationship between stressful events, emotion dysregulation, and anxiety symptoms among youth: longitudinal support for stress causation but not stress generation

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Pages 157-172 | Received 03 Feb 2019, Accepted 07 Jul 2020, Published online: 06 Nov 2020

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