Measuring routine and strategic relational maintenance: Scale revision, sex versus gender roles, and the prediction of relational characteristics

Communication Monographs

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 306-323

  Stafford, Laura ^a   Dainton, Marianne ^b   Haas, Stephen ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b La Salle University ^*  (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040213323     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637750009376512     Document Type: Article

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