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Suzanne C. Kobasa, Salvatore R. Maddi, Sheila Courington, Personality and Constitution as Mediators in the Stress-Illness Relationship, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 368-378
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