Roots and correlates of perceived injustice in the division of family work

Personal Relationships

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 553-574

  Mikula, Gerold ^a   Schoebi, Dominik ^b   Jagoditsch, Sonja ^a   MacHer, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

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EID: 71949099177     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: 14756811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2009.01239.x     Document Type: Article

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