Cultural and evolutionary components of marital satisfaction: A multidimensional assessment of measurement invariance

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-123

  Lucas, Todd ^a   Parkhill, Michele R ^b   Wendorf, Craig A ^c   Imamoǧlu, E Olcay ^d   Weisfeld, Carol C ^e   Weisfeld, Glenn E ^a   Shen, Jiliang ^f  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Invariance; Love; Marital satisfactionl; Marriage; Turkey; United Kingdom; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449706427     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022107311969     Document Type: Article

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