Seeking “Truth,” Finding Despair: Some Unhappy Consequences of a Negative Self-Concept
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Vol. 1 (1) , 15-18
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.ep10767800
Abstract
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