Unresolved mourning, supernatural beliefs and dissociation: a mediation analysis

@article{Thomson2014UnresolvedMS,
  title={Unresolved mourning, supernatural beliefs and dissociation: a mediation analysis},
  author={Paula Thomson and Victoria Jaque},
  journal={Attachment \& Human Development},
  year={2014},
  volume={16},
  pages={499 - 514},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10290610}
}
The mediation analysis demonstrated that pathological dissociation fully mediated the effects of unresolved mourning on supernatural beliefs.
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