Emotional expressiveness and marital adjustment in Ecuador

Marriage and Family Review

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-44

  Ingoldsby, Bron B ^a   Horlacher, Gary T ^a   Schvaneveldt, Paul L ^b   Matthews, Mark ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyadic adjustment; Ecuador; Emotional expressiveness; Marital satisfaction; Modernity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645764922     PISSN: 01494929     EISSN: 15409635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J002v38n01_04     Document Type: Article

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