Life history strategy as a longitudinal predictor of relationship satisfaction and dissolution

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 234-239

  Olderbak, Sally G ^a   Figueredo, Aurelio José ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Life history strategy; Longitudinal; Multilevel modeling; Relationship dissolution; Relationship satisfaction; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952856083     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.041     Document Type: Article

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