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Original Articles

The role of psychopathic personality traits in current psychological and physiological subclinical stress levels of forensic inpatients: a path analysis

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Pages 164-177 | Received 10 Oct 2017, Accepted 03 Oct 2018, Published online: 18 Jan 2019

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