Marital closeness, autonomy, mastery, and depressive symptoms in a U.S. Internet sample

Personal Relationships

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 429-449

  Tower, Roni B ^a,b   Krasner, Mirel ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 33845740657     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: 14756811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2006.00128.x     Document Type: Review

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