Does Marriage Have Positive Effects on the Psychological Well-Being of the Individual?
1983/06/01 by Walter R. Gove, Michael Hughes, Michael D. Hughes +1 · 687 citations
Health Professions · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Clinical psychology #Correlation #Demography #Health disparities and outcomes #Health, psychology, and well-being #Marital relationship #Marital status #Mathematics #Mental health #Population #Psychiatry #Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction #Psychology #Quality (philosophy) #Sociology
paper · doi:10.2307/2136639
published in Journal of Health and Social Behavior 24(2), 122 (SAGE Publishing)
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Abstract
Walter R. Gove, Michael Hughes, Carolyn Briggs Style, Does Marriage Have Positive Effects on the Psychological Well-Being of the Individual?, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Jun., 1983), pp. 122-131
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