A cross-national comparison of Mexican and Mexican American couples using the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised (Spanish)

Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-56

  Negy, Charles ^a   Snyder, Douglas K ^b   Diáz Loving, Rolando ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Assessment; Couples; Cross cultural; Mexico; Spanish; Test adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MARRIAGE; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SATISFACTION; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TEXAS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 2942608190     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191103257402     Document Type: Article

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