Understanding marriage and stress: Essential questions and challenges

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1139-1162

  Story, Lisa B ^a   Bradbury, Thomas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Marriage; Relationship; Stress

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICISM; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0346022977     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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