How is my partner feeling in different daily-life settings? Accuracy of spouses' judgements about their partner's feelings at work and at home

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 183-246

  Wilhelm, Peter ^a   Perrez, Meinrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Ambulatory assessment; Assumed similarity; Couples; Daily life; Electronic data collection; Emphatic inference; Interpersonal perception

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 1242321587     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:soci.0000007339.48649.20     Document Type: Article

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