Marital status and depressive symptoms over time: Age and gender variations

Family Relations

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 404-416

  Lapierre, Tracey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Depression; Gender differences; Life course; Marital status

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349308692     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00562.x     Document Type: Article

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