Understanding marital conflict 7 years later from prenatal representations of marriage

Family Process

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-234

  Curran, Melissa ^a   Ogolsky, Brian ^b   Hazen, Nancy ^c   Bosch, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Early Family Relationships; Marital Conflict; Marriage; Representations of Marriage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUERPERIUM; SPOUSE;

ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; SPOUSES;

EID: 79955927527     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2011.01356.x     Document Type: Article

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