What's love got to do with it? Sexual behaviors of opposite-sex couples through emerging adulthood

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 134-140

  Kaestle, Christine Elizabeth ^a   Halpern, Carolyn Tucker ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IL

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548540625     PISSN: 15386341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/3913407     Document Type: Article

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