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Basic Research Article

Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationships of parental attachment to posttraumatic stress disorder and academic burnout in adolescents following the Yancheng tornado

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Article: 1472989 | Received 16 Oct 2017, Accepted 11 Apr 2018, Published online: 17 May 2018

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