Responses to a happily married other: The role of relationship satisfaction and social comparison orientation

Personal Relationships

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 397-409

  Buunk, Abraham P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33845726496     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: 14756811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2006.00126.x     Document Type: Article

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