Dyadic perspectives on marital quality and loneliness in later life

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 600-618

  Moorman, Sara M ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyadic couple data; emotion in relationships model; families in later life; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONELINESS; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; PERCEPTION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL LIFE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

EID: 84978105471     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: 14603608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407515584504     Document Type: Article

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