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[Characteristics of the relationship attribution measure (RAM) with Japanese middle-aged couples]

Akiko Kawashima1, Kyoko Ito, Masumi Sugawara

  • 1Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University, Ohtsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan. a_kawash51@yahoo.co.jp

Shinrigaku Kenkyu : the Japanese Journal of Psychology
|December 17, 2008
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