Family strengths and the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale: A factor analytic study

Psychological Reports

Volumn 88, Issue 3 PART 2, 2001, Pages 965-973

  Schumm, Walter R ^a   Bollman, Stephan R ^b   Jurich, Anthony P ^b   Hatch, Ruth C ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SATISFACTION;

ADULT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0035378423     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.3c.965     Document Type: Article

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