Changes following Premarital Education for Couples with Differing Degrees of Future Marital Risk

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 165-177

  Barton, Allen W ^a   Futris, Ted G ^a   Bradley, Renay C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUPLES THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREMARITAL EXAMINATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SINGLE PERSON; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899476759     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: 17520606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jmft.12006     Document Type: Article

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