Trajectories of marital conflict across the life course: Predictors and interactions with marital happiness trajectories

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 341-368

  Kamp Dush, Claire M ^a   Taylor, Miles G ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

latent class analysis; life course; marital conflict; marital quality; marriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856747284     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X11409684     Document Type: Article

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