The family unpredictability scale: Reliability and validity

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 549-562

  Ross, Lisa Thomson ^a   Hill, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysfunction; Family; Inconsistency; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034178367     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00549.x     Document Type: Review

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