Disputing the notion of psychopathology among women married to hypersexual men using the MMPI-2-RF

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-55

  Reid, Rory C ^a   Carpenter, Bruce N ^b   Draper, Elizabeth D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPOUSE; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SPOUSES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 78651329228     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0092623X.2011.533585     Document Type: Article

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