Development of a New Ego States Inventory – Report on a Brazilian Sample with a Portuguese Version
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This work is part of the master's thesis of the first author supervised by the second and third authors. Graduate Program in Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.
The authors thank CAPES and FAPEMIG for financial assistance and scholarship granted.
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