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Maternal prenatal conditional regard orientation and postnatal controlling behaviour as predictors of preschoolers’ helpless coping with failure: A prospective study

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Pages 828-854 | Received 25 Jun 2019, Accepted 14 Aug 2020, Published online: 12 Oct 2020

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