Malleability of gender role attitudes and gendered messages in couple and relationship education

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-17

  Lucier Greer, Mallory ^a   Ketring, Scott A ^b   Adler Baeder, Francesca ^b   Smith, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Gender roles; Malleability; Relationship education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866298420     PISSN: 1077727X     EISSN: 15523934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-3934.2012.02125.x     Document Type: Article

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