Predicting marital satisfaction from self, partner, and couple characteristics: Is it me, you, or us?

Journal of Personality

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1231-1266

  Luo, Shanhong ^a   Chen, Hao ^b   Yue, Guoan ^b   Zhang, Guangjian ^c   Zhaoyang, Ruixue ^b   Xu, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CHINA; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MARRIAGE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHARACTER; CHINA; COMMUNICATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 51749118057     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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