Profiling family communication standards: A U.S.-Japan comparison

Communication Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-31

  Matsunaga, Masaki ^a   Imahori, Tadasu Todd ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SEINAN GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Culture; Family communication standards; Family satisfaction; Latent profile analysis; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149163368     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650208326459     Document Type: Article

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