Marital happiness and psychological well-being across the life course

Family Relations

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-226

  Kamp Dush, Claire M ^a   Taylor, Miles G ^b   Kroeger, Rhiannon A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Latent class analysis; Marital happiness; Marital satisfaction; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549145312     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2008.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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