Are Changes in Marital Satisfaction Sustained and Steady, or Sporadic and Dramatic?
Although prominent theories of intimate relationships, and couples themselves, often conceive of relationships as fluctuating widely in their degree of closeness, longitudinal studies generally describe partners' satisfaction as stable and continuous or as steadily declining over time. The increasin...
| Publicado en: | American Psychologist Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 225 - 241 |
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Feb2024
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