Desire for marriage and life satisfaction among unmarried heterosexual adults

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 225-239

  Frazier, Patricia ^a   Arikian, Nancy ^b   Benson, Sonja ^b   Losoff, Ann ^b   Maurer, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Communication values; Personal relationships; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345880299     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407596132004     Document Type: Article

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