Relative Income and Marital Happiness Among Urban Chinese Women: The Moderating Role of Personal Commitment

Journal of Happiness Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1575-1584

  Zhang, Huiping ^a   Tsang, Sandra Kit Man ^b  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Marital happiness; Personal commitment; Urban China; Wives' relative income

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886639077     PISSN: 13894978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-012-9396-5     Document Type: Article

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