Long-Term Effects of Child Death on Parents' Health-Related Quality of Life: A Dyadic Analysis

Family Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-282

  Song, Jieun ^a   Floyd, Frank J ^b   Seltzer, Marsha Mailick ^a   Greenberg, Jan S ^a   Hong, Jinkuk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Couple data; Death; Health; Marital closeness; Multilevel models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955153587     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2010.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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