Starting Over: Why Remarriages Are More Unstable

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 179-194

  Booth, Alan ^a   Edwards, John N ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; NUPTIALITY; REMARRIAGE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIVORCE; DIVORCE--DETERMINANTS; DIVORCED; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; FAMILY; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY LIFE SURVEYS; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; FAMILY RESEARCH; FAMILY SIZE; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIVORCE--DETERMINANTS; DIVORCED; ECONOMIC FACTORS; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY LIFE SURVEYS; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; FAMILY RESEARCH; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; LINEAR REGRESSION; MARITAL STATUS; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; NUPTIALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; REMARRIAGE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAS; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIVORCE; ECONOMICS; FAMILY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MARITAL STATUS; MARRIAGE; NORTH AMERICA; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0026878860     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019251392013002004     Document Type: Article

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