Stability, change, and informant variance in newlyweds' physical aggression: Individual and dyadic processes

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Lorber, Michael F ^a   O'Leary, K Daniel ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Autoregressive; Couples; Informant; Stability; State trait

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SPOUSE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PERSONALITY; RISK FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; SPOUSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859732853     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20414     Document Type: Article

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