Synopses & Reviews
A comprehensive introduction that reflects the fact that relationship science has proved to be an intellectually cohesive and cumulative endeavor. Encompasses the relationship itself and the common descriptors of relationships, and defines and discusses the constructs critical to relationship science. Anyone interested in the historical and theoretical perspectives that are the basis of knowledge of interpersonal relationships.
Synopsis
This textbook provides an integrated and organized foundation for students seeking a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of relationship science. It emphasizes the relationship field's intellectual themes, roots, and milestones; discusses its key constructs and their conceptualizations; describes its methodologies and classic studies; and, most important, presents the theories that have guided relationship scholars and produced the field's major research themes.
Table of Contents
I. RELATIONSHIPS: THE WEB OF LIFE. 1. First Relationships. 2. Relationships and Health.
II. RELATIONSHIP SCIENCE. 3. The Development of Relationship Science.
4. The Concept of Relationship.
5. Varieties of Relationship.
III. RELATIONSHIP INITIATION AND DEVELOPMENT. 6. Birth of a Relationship.
7. Relationship Growth and Maintenance.
IV. RELATIONSHIP PROCESSES. 8. Cognitive Processes.
9. Affective Processes.
10. Dispositional Influences.
V. MATING RELATIONSHIPS. 11. Love.
12. Mate Selection and Sex.
VI. RELATIONSHIPS OVER TIME. 13. Satisfaction and Stability.
14. Intervention and Dissolution.