Marital Conflict Behaviors and Implications for Divorce Over 16 Years

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1188-1204

  Birditt, Kira S ^a,d   Brown, Edna ^b   Orbuch, Terri L ^a   McIlvane, Jessica M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyadic data; Family conflict; Gender; Longitudinal; Marital status; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957239588     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00758.x     Document Type: Article

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