Enrichment Training Program and Successful Marriage in Kuwait: a Field Study on Kuwaiti Couples

Digest of Middle East Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1-16

  Alqashan, Humoud ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

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EID: 84981210236     PISSN: 10604367     EISSN: 19493606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-3606.2008.tb00234.x     Document Type: Article

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