Mixed Messages: Implications of social conflict and social support within close relationships for adjustment to a stressful life event

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1349-1363

  Major, Brenda ^a   Cooper, M Lynne ^b   Zubek, Josephine M ^c,e   Cozzarelli, Catherine ^d   Richards, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDUCED ABORTION; LIFE EVENT; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0031156191     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.6.1349     Document Type: Article

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