The interactive effects of marital conflict and divorce on parent - adult children's relationships

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 282-292

  Yu, Tianyi ^a   Pettit, Gregory S ^b   Lansford, Jennifer E ^c   Dodge, Kenneth A ^c   Bates, John E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Divorce; Gender; Parent child relations; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952850208     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00699.x     Document Type: Article

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