Rebuilding the network: New relationships in widowhood

Personal Relationships

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 337-349

  Lamme, Simone ^a   Dykstra, Pearl A ^b   Broese Van Groenou, Marjolein I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INTERDISCIPLINARY DEMOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0347833314     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.1996.tb00120.x     Document Type: Article

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