Attachment style, marital satisfaction, commitment, and communal strength effects on relational repair message interpretation among remarrieds

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-16

  Bello, Richard S ^a   Brandau Brown, Frances E ^a   Ragsdale, J Donald ^b  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Marital satisfaction; Message interpretation; Relational repair; Remarriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949100195     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463370701838968     Document Type: Article

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