Ethnicity and acculturation: Assessing Mexican American couples' relationship using the marital satisfaction inventory - Revised

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 414-421

  Negy, Charles ^a   Snyder, Douglas K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; MARRIAGE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0031423456     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.9.4.414     Document Type: Article

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