Close relationships across the life span: Toward a theory of relationship types

Growing Together: Personal Relationships Across the Life Span

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 130-158

  Takahashi, Keiko ^a  

^a University of the Sacred Heart   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511499852.006     Document Type: Chapter

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