Marital Relationships and Parenting: Intimate Relations and Their Correlates

ISBN-13: 9780367595135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Ami Rokach

Opis

Focusing on intimate relationships, between couples and between parents and their children, this book explores themes including the influence of parental relationships on children, adolescents, and college students; how humour may influence and improve relationships; how children’s loneliness may be affected by their relationship with their pare

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Marital and Intimate Relations  1. Intimacy Behaviors and Relationship Satisfaction for Cohabitors: Intimate Sacrifices Are Not Always Beneficial  2. Adult Attachment and Dyadic Adjustment: The Mediating Role of Shame  3. Humor Use in Romantic Relationships: The Effects of Relationship Satisfaction and Pleasant Versus Conflict Situations  4. Empathy and Social Support Provision in Couples: Social Support and the Need to Study the Underlying Processes  5. Adult Attachment Styles and Psychological Disease: Examining the Mediating Role of Personality Traits  6. How Does Culture Influence the Degree of Romantic Loneliness and Closeness?  Part II: Parents, children, support and intimacy  7. Marriage Matters But How Much? Marital Centrality Among Young Adults  8. Parental Attachment and Adolescents’ Perception of School Alienation: The Mediation Role of Self-Esteem and Adjustment  9. Young Adult Sibling Relations: The Effects of Perceived Parental Favoritism and Narcissism  10. Perceived Parenting and Separation-Individuation in Belgian College Students: Associations with Emotional Adjustment  11. Parental Support and Adolescent Motivation for Dieting: The Self-Determination Theory Perspective  12. The Effect of Attachment Insecurity in the Development of Eating Disturbances across Gender: The Role of Body Dissatisfaction  13. Children’s Loneliness, Sense of Coherence, Family Climate, and Hope: Developmental Risk and Protective Factors

O autorze

Ami Rokach is a Clinical Psychologist who combines treating individuals and couples with university teaching, and research, based at York University, Toronto, Canada. His areas of interest and expertise include loneliness, marital and sex therapy, anxiety and depression reduction, and helping patients and people in general acquire the tools to develop and enjoy intimate relationships.