Social Comparisons and Adjustment Among Cardiac Patients1
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Vol. 23 (15) , 1171-1195
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1993.tb01027.x
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