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Basic Research Article

The Youth and Childhood Adversity Scale: a step towards developing a new measure of adversity and its severity

La Escala de Adversidad en Infancia y Juventud: Un paso hacia el desarrollo de una nueva medida de la adversidad y su gravedad

青春期和童年逆境量表: 制定逆境及其严重程度新测量的一步

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Article: 1981573 | Received 14 Apr 2021, Accepted 07 Sep 2021, Published online: 04 Nov 2021

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