Military wives' stressful disclosures to their deployed husbands: The role of protective buffering

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 412-434

  Joseph, Andrea L ^a   Afifi, Tamara D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal coping; Communication privacy management; Marital communication; Relationships; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957709330     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2010.513997     Document Type: Article

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