HIV Prevention and Social Desirability: Husband-Wife Discrepancies in Reports of Condom Use

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 601-613

  Cordero Coma, Julia ^a   Breen, Richard ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African families; AIDS; Latent class analysis; Marital sex; Marriage; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861477589     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00976.x     Document Type: Article

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