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We thank Richard L. Hough and Dianne Timbers Fairbank for the use of the Life Change and Illness Research project data. The project was supported by grant RO1-MH16108 of the Center for Epidemiological Research of NIMH, by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, and by the University of Texas at El Paso. We are also grateful to the Research Board of the University of Illinois for partial support of this research, to Mark Beeman for his help with computer work, and to Blair Wheaton for his comments.
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Ross, C.E., Mirowsky, J. & Cockerham, W.C. Social class, Mexican culture, and fatalism: Their effects on psychological distress. Am J Commun Psychol 11, 383–399 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00894055
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