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Timothy J. Owens, Accentuate the Positive-and the Negative: Rethinking the Use of Self-Esteem, Self-Deprecation, and Self-Confidence, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Dec., 1993), pp. 288-299
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