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Trauma as an objective or subjective experience: The association between types of traumatic events, personality traits, subjective experience of the event, and posttraumatic symptoms

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Pages 137-146 | Received 08 Jul 2014, Accepted 16 Sep 2014, Published online: 27 Oct 2015

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