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Premarital prediction of marital quality or breakup : research, theory, and practice / Thomas B. Holman, with Paul James Birch ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holman, Thomas.
- Series:
- Longitudinal research in the social and behavioral sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mate selection.
- Marriage.
- Marriage compatibility tests.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2001]
- Summary:
- This book represents the first serious attempt in more than forty years to carry out a large-scale longitudinal study of premarital factors that predict breakup and marital quality. The author develops a theoretical rationale for predicted paths and tests those paths with the best statistical tools; practitioners will find the results useful in their attempts to help individuals and couples make decisions about marriage, marital stability, and childrearing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0306463261
- OCLC:
- 43434524
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