TY - BOOK AU - Vangelisti,Anita L. AU - Perlman,Daniel TI - The Cambridge handbook of personal relationships SN - 9780521826174 (hardcover) AV - HM1106 .C36 2006 U1 - 302.1 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Interpersonal communication KW - Social psychology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Personal relationships : an introduction; Daniel Perlman and Anita L. Vangelisti --; 2; The seven seas of the study of personal relationships : from "the thousand islands" to interconnected waterways; Daniel Perlman and Steve Duck --; 3; Theoretical perspectives in the study of close relationships; John H. Harvey and Amy Wenzel --; 4; Research methods for the study of personal relationships; Mahnaz Charania and William J. Ickes --; 5; Advances in data analytic approaches for relationships research : the broad utility of hierarchical linear modeling; Deborah A. Kashy, Lorne Campbell and David W. Harris --; 6; Relationship typologies; C. Arthur VanLear, Ascan Koerner and Donna M. Allen --; 7; From courtship to universal properties : research on dating and mate selection, 1950 to 2003; Catherine A. Surra, Christine R. Gray, Tyfany M. J. Boettcher, Nathan R. Cottle and Adam R. West --; 8; The affective structure of marriage; John P. Caughlin and Ted L. Huston --; 9; Divorce and postdivorce relationships; Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence Ganong and Kim Leon --; 10; Relationships in early and middle childhood; Willard W. Hartup --; 11; Personal relationships in adolescence and early adulthood; W. Andrew Collins and Stephanie D. Madsen --; 12; Close relationships in middle and late adulthood; Rosemary Blieszner --; 13; Personality and relationships : a temperament perspective; Jeffry A. Simpson, Heike A. Winterheld and Jennie Y. Chen --; 14; Attachment theory, individual psychodynamics, and relationship functioning; Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer --; 15; "His" and "her" relationships? : a review of the empirical evidence; Emily A. Impett and Letitia Anne Peplau --; 16; The intimate same-sex relationships of sexual minorities; Lisa M. Diamond --; 17; Family relationships and depression; Daborah J. Jones, Steven R. H. Beach and Frank D. Fincham --; 18; Communication : basic properties and their relevance to relationship research; Alan L. Sillars and Anita L. Vangelisti --; 19; Social cognition in intimate relationships; Garth J. O. Fletcher, Nickola C. Overall and Myron D. Friesen --; 20; Emotion in theories of close relationships; Sally Planalp, Julie Fitness and Beverley Fehr --; 21; Physiology and interpersonal relationships; Timothy J. Loving, Kathi L. Heffner and Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser --; 22; Self-disclosure in personal relationships; Kathryn Greene, Valerian J. Derlega and Alicia Mathews --; 23; Close relationships and social support : implications for the measurement of social support; Barbara R. Sarason and Irwin G. Sarason --; 24; Understanding couple conflict; Galena H. Kline, Nicole D. Pleasant, Sarah W. Whitton and Howard J. Markman --; 25; Sexuality in close relationships; Susan Sprecher, F. Scott Christopher and Rodney Cate --; 26; Loneliness and social isolation; Jenny de Jong Gierveld, Theo van Tilburg and Pearl A. Dykstra --; 27; Stress in couples : the process of dyadic coping; Carolyn E. Cutroma and Kelli A. Gardner --; 28; Lying and deception in close relationships; Mark L. Knapp --; 29; Temptations and threat : extradyadic relations and jealousy; Abraham P. Buunk and Pieternal Dijkstra --; 30; Violence and abuse in personal relationships : conflict, terror, and resistance in intimate partnerships; Michael P. Johnson --; 31; Relationship satisfaction; Frank D. Fincham and Steven R. H. Beach --; 32; Romantic love; Arthur Aron, Helen E. Fisher and Greg Strong --; 33; Commitment; Caryl E. Rusbult, Michael K. Coolsen, Jeffrey L. Kirchner and Jennifer A. Clarke --; 34; Intimacy in personal relationships; Jean-Philippe Laurenceau and Brighid M. Kleinman --; 35; Social networks and personal communities; Graham Allan --; 36; Relationships in home and community environments : a transactional and dialectic analysis; Barbara B. Brown, Carol M. Werner and Irwin Altman --; 37; Relationships, culture, and social change; Robin Goodwin and Urmila Pillay --; 38; Personal relationships : on and off the Internet; Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman --; 39; Maintaining relationships; Daniel J. Canary and Marianne Dainton --; 40; The treatment of relationship distress : theoretical perspectives and empirical findings; Donald H. Baucom, Norman B. Epstein and Susan Stanton --; 41; Bringing it all together : a theoretical approach; Patricia Noller N2 - "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 ER -