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Original Article

Children's self‐reports and parents' reports of internalising and externalising problems in Chinese and Anglo‐Celtic children in Australia

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Pages 155-163 | Received 27 Oct 2011, Accepted 18 Aug 2011, Published online: 20 Nov 2020

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