1st Edition
The Emerging Field of Personal Relationships
Contributors. Preface. Part 1: Introduction and Overview 1. Personal Relationships: Their Nature and Significance Harold H. Kelley Part 2: Depiction and Taxonomy of Relationships 2. The Skills, Rules, and Goals of Relationships Michael Argyle 3. The Structural Analysis of Primary Relationships G. P. Ginsburg 4. Relationships, Personality, and the Social Situation Robert A. Hinde and Joan Stevenson-Hinde 5. Dyads, Cliques, and Conspiracies: Friendship Behaviours and Perceptions Within Long-Established Social Groups Barry McCarthy 6. Gender Effects in Social Participation: Intimacy, Loneliness, and the Conduct of Social Interaction Harry T. Reis Part 3: Development and Growth of Relationships 7. When the Honeymoon’s Over: Changes in the Marriage Relationship Over the First Year Ted L. Huston, Susan M. McHale, and Ann C. Crouter 8. Charting the Development of Personal Relationships Steve Duck and Dorothy Miell 9. Interaction Characteristics of Disengaging, Stable, and Growing Relationships Leslie A. Baxter and William W. Wilmot 10. The Relation Between Patterns of Friendship, Self-Concept, and Conceptions of Friendship in Six-Year-Olds Harriet K. A. Sants 11. The Development of Preferred Relationships in Preschool Children: Child-Child and Child-Adult Relationships Grazia Attili Part 4: Disorder and Repair of Relationships 12. Attribution in the Termination of Close Relationships: A Special Focus on the Account John H. Harvey, Ann L. Weber, Kathryn S. Galvin, Heather C. Huszti and Nettie N. Garnick 13. Beyond Marriage: The Impact of Partner Loss on Health Wolfgang Stroebe and Margaret S. Stroebe 14. Examining the Causes and Consequences of Jealousy: Some Recent Findings and Issues Robert G. Bringle and Bram Buunk 15. Loneliness and the Degree of Intimacy in Interpersonal Relationships Jenny de Jong-Gierveld 16. Individual and Interpersonal Factors in the Etiology of Marital Distress: The Example of Remarital Couples Janet Farrell and Howard J. Markman Part 5: Summary and Perspective 17. Mea Culpas and Lamentations: Sir Francis, Sir Isaac, and "The Slow Progress of Soft Psychology" Ellen Berscheid. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
Biography
Robin Gilmour, Steve Duck
