Economic crisis and marital problems in Turkey: Testing the family stress model

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 756-767

  Aytaç, Işik A ^a   Rankin, Bruce H ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Crisis; Families and work; Family stress; Marriage; Non U.S. families; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749086488     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00631.x     Document Type: Article

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