Predicting romantic relationship satisfaction from life history strategy

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 604-610

  Olderbak, Sally ^a   Figueredo, Aurelio José ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment style; Communication; Life history strategy; Relationship satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 59749097486     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.12.019     Document Type: Article

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