Predicting maintenance enactment from relational schemata, spousal behavior, and relational characteristics

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-180

  Dainton, Marianne ^a   Stafford, Laura ^b  

^a LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0009917128     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824090009388763     Document Type: Article

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