Attachment style: A risk for multiple marriages?

Journal of Divorce and Remarriage

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 125-139

  Ceglian, Cindi Penor ^a   Gardner, Scott ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Divorce; Remarriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008756966     PISSN: 10502556     EISSN: 15404811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J087v31n01_07     Document Type: Article

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