Marital satisfaction and communication in fundamentalist protestant marriages

Psychological Reports

Volumn 78, Issue 3 PART 1, 1996, Pages 979-985

  Snow, Thomas S ^a,b   Compton, William C ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0001407363     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.78.3.979     Document Type: Article

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