Developing an Attitudes Toward Housecleaning Scale: Gender Comparisons and Counseling Applications

The Family Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 400-407

  Ogletree, Shirley Matile ^a,b   Worthen, James B ^a,b   Turner, G Marc ^a,b   Vickers, Victoria ^a,b  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; housecleaning attitudes; housework; marital counseling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748076452     PISSN: 10664807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1066480706289589     Document Type: Article

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