The effect of attachment and sternberg's triangular theory of love on relationship satisfaction

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 76-84

  Madey, Scott F ^a   Rodgers, Lindsey ^a  

^a SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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