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Adversity and Resilience

Mindfulness and wellbeing in older adults’ survivors of herdsmen attack. The mediating effect of positive reappraisal

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Pages 1132-1140 | Received 26 Dec 2018, Accepted 24 Mar 2019, Published online: 24 Apr 2019

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