The Cambridge handbook of personal relationships /
edited by Anita L. Vangelisti, Daniel Perlman.
- xxii, 891 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Personal relationships : an introduction / The seven seas of the study of personal relationships : from "the thousand islands" to interconnected waterways / Theoretical perspectives in the study of close relationships / Research methods for the study of personal relationships / Advances in data analytic approaches for relationships research : the broad utility of hierarchical linear modeling / Relationship typologies / From courtship to universal properties : research on dating and mate selection, 1950 to 2003 / The affective structure of marriage / Divorce and postdivorce relationships / Relationships in early and middle childhood / Personal relationships in adolescence and early adulthood / Close relationships in middle and late adulthood / Personality and relationships : a temperament perspective / Attachment theory, individual psychodynamics, and relationship functioning / "His" and "her" relationships? : a review of the empirical evidence / The intimate same-sex relationships of sexual minorities / Family relationships and depression / Communication : basic properties and their relevance to relationship research / Social cognition in intimate relationships / Emotion in theories of close relationships / Physiology and interpersonal relationships / Self-disclosure in personal relationships / Close relationships and social support : implications for the measurement of social support / Understanding couple conflict / Sexuality in close relationships / Loneliness and social isolation / Stress in couples : the process of dyadic coping / Lying and deception in close relationships / Temptations and threat : extradyadic relations and jealousy / Violence and abuse in personal relationships : conflict, terror, and resistance in intimate partnerships / Relationship satisfaction / Romantic love / Commitment / Intimacy in personal relationships / Social networks and personal communities / Relationships in home and community environments : a transactional and dialectic analysis / Relationships, culture, and social change / Personal relationships : on and off the Internet / Maintaining relationships / The treatment of relationship distress : theoretical perspectives and empirical findings / Bringing it all together : a theoretical approach / Daniel Perlman and Anita L. Vangelisti -- Daniel Perlman and Steve Duck -- John H. Harvey and Amy Wenzel -- Mahnaz Charania and William J. Ickes -- Deborah A. Kashy, Lorne Campbell and David W. Harris -- C. Arthur VanLear, Ascan Koerner and Donna M. Allen -- Catherine A. Surra, Christine R. Gray, Tyfany M. J. Boettcher, Nathan R. Cottle and Adam R. West -- John P. Caughlin and Ted L. Huston -- Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence Ganong and Kim Leon -- Willard W. Hartup -- W. Andrew Collins and Stephanie D. Madsen -- Rosemary Blieszner -- Jeffry A. Simpson, Heike A. Winterheld and Jennie Y. Chen -- Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer -- Emily A. Impett and Letitia Anne Peplau -- Lisa M. Diamond -- Daborah J. Jones, Steven R. H. Beach and Frank D. Fincham -- Alan L. Sillars and Anita L. Vangelisti -- Garth J. O. Fletcher, Nickola C. Overall and Myron D. Friesen -- Sally Planalp, Julie Fitness and Beverley Fehr -- Timothy J. Loving, Kathi L. Heffner and Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser -- Kathryn Greene, Valerian J. Derlega and Alicia Mathews -- Barbara R. Sarason and Irwin G. Sarason -- Galena H. Kline, Nicole D. Pleasant, Sarah W. Whitton and Howard J. Markman -- Susan Sprecher, F. Scott Christopher and Rodney Cate -- Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Theo van Tilburg and Pearl A. Dykstra -- Carolyn E. Cutroma and Kelli A. Gardner -- Mark L. Knapp -- Abraham P. Buunk and Pieternal Dijkstra -- Michael P. Johnson -- Frank D. Fincham and Steven R. H. Beach -- Arthur Aron, Helen E. Fisher and Greg Strong -- Caryl E. Rusbult, Michael K. Coolsen, Jeffrey L. Kirchner and Jennifer A. Clarke -- Jean-Philippe Laurenceau and Brighid M. Kleinman -- Graham Allan -- Barbara B. Brown, Carol M. Werner and Irwin Altman -- Robin Goodwin and Urmila Pillay -- Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman -- Daniel J. Canary and Marianne Dainton -- Donald H. Baucom, Norman B. Epstein and Susan Stanton -- Patricia Noller. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41.
"With the field of personal relationships having grown dramatically in the past quarter century, this volume serves as a benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature, tracing its historical roots, and making recommendations for future directions. The authors are international experts from a variety of disciplines including several subfields of psychology, communication, family studies and sociology who have made major contributions to the understanding of relationships."--Publisher description.