Factors in Chinese Marital Process: Relationship to Marital Adjustment

Family Process

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-61

  Lewinsohn, Mark A ^a   Werner, Paul D ^b  

^a Tualatin Valley Mental Health   (United States)

^b ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031087597     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1997.00043.x     Document Type: Article

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