Dispositional pessimism predicts delayed return to normal activities after inguinal hernia operation
- 1 February 2003
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Surgery
- Vol. 133 (2), 141-146
- https://doi.org/10.1067/msy.2003.34
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