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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Relationship Between Empathy and Interpersonal Distress of Chinese Left-Behind Children: The Role of Emotion Regulation and Gender

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Pages 3717-3726 | Received 30 Mar 2023, Accepted 31 Aug 2023, Published online: 07 Sep 2023

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