Prospective study of the significance of life stress in the etiology of child abuse.

Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

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The social readjustment rating scale

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Multivariate Analysis: Techniques for Educational and Psychological Research

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Child abuse as psychopathology: A sociological critique and reformulation.

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