Relational uncertainty and relationship talk within courtship: A longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model

Communication Monographs

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-26

  Knobloch, Leanne K ^a   Theiss, Jennifer A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship; Relational uncertainty; Relationship talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551499787     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: 14795787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2010.542471     Document Type: Article

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