What role do relationships play in the individual's health and the functioning of families and communities? Recent research indicates that relationships are important not only to individuals' well-being, but also to families, whilst their importance in the functioning of communities is only beginning to be recognized and investigated in a systematic way. Each chapter is focused on a cutting-edge application of the personal relationships perspective relevant to clinical and community psychology. The book addresses such issues as the effect of close personal relationships on health...
What role do relationships play in the individual's health and the functioning of families and communities? Recent research indicates that relationshi...
The Social Psychology of Personal Relationships provides a concise and highly readable introduction to the major social psychological perspectives on the study of personal relationships. The contributors, all internationally recognized scholars in their respective fields, address the study of personal relationships from the following key social psychological perspectives:
* attachment theory * evolutionary psychology * interdependence relations * interracial relationships * self-expansion theory * self-presentation theory This...
The Social Psychology of Personal Relationships provides a concise and highly readable introduction to the major social psychological perspectives on ...
Understanding Research in Personal Relationships is a comprehensive introduction to the key readings on human and close relationships. Organized into twelve thematic chapters with editorial commentary throughout, the Editors offer a critical reading of the major research articles in the field of relationship studies published in the last few years. Scholarly papers, two per chapter, are presented in an abridged form and critiqued in a carefully structured way that instructs students on the way to read research, and to critically evaluate research in this field. The book, therefore, has a...
Understanding Research in Personal Relationships is a comprehensive introduction to the key readings on human and close relationships. Organized into ...
"The main strengths of the book are its uniqueness??? its mix of emphasis on methods, statistics, and ideas, its commentaries by the authors, and the well-chosen journal articles."- John Harvey, University of Iowa
Understanding Research in Personal Relationships is a comprehensive introduction to the key readings on human and close relationships. Organized into twelve thematic chapters with editorial commentary throughout, the editors offer a critical reading of the major research articles in the field of relationship studies published in the last few years. Scholarly papers, two per...
"The main strengths of the book are its uniqueness??? its mix of emphasis on methods, statistics, and ideas, its commentaries by the authors, and the ...
Even in the closest of relationships, things can go wrong. This title looks at difficulties, dilemmas and challenges in relationships and examines useful management and tolerance skills. It includes topics such as: anger; having enemies; the family after divorce; interpersonal violence; codependency; HIV//AIDS; chronic illness; and bereavement.
Even in the closest of relationships, things can go wrong. This title looks at difficulties, dilemmas and challenges in relationships and examines use...
Even in the closest of relationships, things can go wrong. This volume looks at difficulties, dilemmas and challenges in relationships and examines useful management and tolerance skills. It includes topics such as: anger; having enemies; the family after divorce; interpersonal violence; codependency; HIV//AIDS; chronic illness; and bereavement.
Even in the closest of relationships, things can go wrong. This volume looks at difficulties, dilemmas and challenges in relationships and examines us...
The diverse and emergent forms of relationships, increasingly evident in today's society, are the focus of this volume.
Outstanding researchers discuss relationships that are often overlooked in the literature, including: lesbian and gay; cultural minority; long-lasting marriages; non-marital cohabitation; long-distance; friendships developed through computer networks; and work relationships which are simultaneously hierarchical and friendly.
The diverse and emergent forms of relationships, increasingly evident in today's society, are the focus of this volume.
Relating Difficulty offers insight into the nature of difficulty in relationships across a broad range of human experience. Whether dealing with in-laws or ex-spouses, long-distance relationships or power and status in the workplace, difficulty is an all too common feature of daily life. Relating Difficulty brings the academic understanding of relational processes to the everyday problems people face at home and at work. These essays represent a groundbreaking collection of the multidisciplinary conceptual and empirical work that currently exists on the topic. Along with...
Relating Difficulty offers insight into the nature of difficulty in relationships across a broad range of human experience. Whether dealing wit...
The Fourth Edition of this highly successful textbook provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the study and understanding of human relationships. This thoroughly revised edition combines the most recent research from social, personality, and developmental psychology, communication studies, family studies, and sociology with greater interdisciplinarity coverage and emphasis on processes of everyday life. Fresh insights from family studies, developmental psychology, occupational, and organizational psychology also combine to bring new perspectives to this thorough survey of the...
The Fourth Edition of this highly successful textbook provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the study and understanding of human relatio...
This volume explores the impact of social, cultural, structural, network and dynamic transactional processes on the conduct of relationships. In so doing, it makes a compelling case for research to be directed away from over-application of individual perspectives and towards inclusion of contextual factors.
Confronting the practical realities against which individuals may struggle to manage relationships, contributors focus on such issues as: limits on opportunity and freedom; coercive family norms; responsibilities; poverty; and prejudice.
This volume explores the impact of social, cultural, structural, network and dynamic transactional processes on the conduct of relationships. In so do...
