Adult Friendship

ISBN-13: 9780803936737 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 148 str.

Rosemary H. Blieszner; Rebecca G. Adams; Susan S. Hendrick

Opis

A topic relevant to everyone - friendship - is explored in this volume, the first in the "SAGE Series on Close Relationships." It presents a thoughtful statement about what we know, and have yet to learn, concerning adults' friendships.

The authors discuss state-of-the-art research on the interplay between social structure, individual disposition and dynamic processes of friendship, and findings on both similarities and differences across adult lifecourse stages. They provide a theoretical framework, incorporating both sociological and psychological perspectives. Using this framework, they offer a new and integrative model of friendship to synthesize research, identify gaps in the literature, scrutinize methods used an