Reliability and validity of the Kansas marital satisfaction scale with different response formats in a recent sample of U.S. Army personnel

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-37

  Schumm, Walter R ^a   Crock, Rosemary J ^a   Likcani, Adriatik ^a   Akagi, Cynthia G ^b   Bosch, Kathy R ^c  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

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