Personality is of central concern to understand health: towards a theoretical model for health psychology.

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Published in Health Psychol Rev on May 28, 2013

Authors

Eamonn Ferguson1

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1: Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.

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