Cross-cultural consistency of the demand/withdraw interaction pattern in couples

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1029-1044

  Christensen, Andrew ^a   Eldridge, Kathleen ^b   Catta Preta, Adriana Bokel ^c   Lim, Veronica R ^d   Santagata, Rossella ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PAREXEL INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d SPARE Counseling Center ^*  (United States)

^e LessonLab Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Couples; Demand withdraw interaction; Relationship satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749562578     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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