"The authors in the volume extend the reach of their comprehensive reviews into theoretically driven and innovating explorations. The scope of coverage across and within chapters is striking. The developmentalist, the methodologist, the feminist, the contextualist, and the cross culturalist alike will find satisfaction in reading the chapters." -Catherine A. Surra, The University of Texas at Austin The science of close relationships is relatively new and complex. Close Relationships: A Sourcebook represents the growing maturity of this multidisciplinary enterprise. The volume offers 26 chapters organized into four thematic areas: relationship methods, forms, processes, and threats, as well as a foreword and an epilogue. The volume provides a panoramic view of close relationship research as it enters the 21st century, offering highlights from current literature, original research, practical applications, and projections for future research. Relationship Methods includes both qualitative and quantitative chapters. Relationship Forms includes many of the stages, types, and roles that characterize intimate relationships. In a developmental fashion, chapters address social networks, children's friendships, adolescent relationships, adult friendships, and friendships in later life. Chapters on multicultural and multiracial relationships and gay, lesbian, and bisexual relationships illustrate the variety of relationship forms that the science of close relationships must consider. The alignments and realignments of traditional family structure are considered in terms of contemporary marriage, divorce and single parenting, and remarried families. Relationship Processes includes chapters on emotion, attachment, romantic love, sexuality, intimacy, communication, conflict, social support, and relational maintenance. The important topic of gender concludes the section. The shadow side of human nature is explored in the Relationship Threats section, with chapters on infidelity and jealousy, physical and sexual aggression, depression, and loss and bereavement. A foreword by Ellen Berscheid sets the stage for this broad-ranging collection of chapters. Steve Duck and Linda Acitelli conclude with an epilogue that provides a new beginning for the science of close relationships.
Foreword Back to the Future and Forward to the Past PART ONE: RELATIONSHIP METHODS - Deborah A Kashy and Maurice J Levesque Quantitative Methods in Close Relationships - Katherine R Allen and Alexis J Walker Qualitative Research PART TWO: RELATIONSHIP FORMS - Robert M Milardo and Heather Helms-Erikson Network Overlap and Third-Party Influence in Close Relationships - Amanda J Rose and Steven R Asher Children's Friendships - W Andrew Collins and Brett Laursen Adolescent Relationships The Art of Fugue - Beverley Fehr The Life-Cycle of Friendship - Rosemary Blieszner Close Relationships in Old Age - Stanley O Gaines Jr and James H Liu Multicultural//Multiracial Relationships - Leticia Anne Peplau and Leah R Spalding The Close Relationships of Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexuals - Janice M Steil Contemporary Marriage Still Unequal Partnership - Mark A Fine Divorce and Single Parenting - Lawrence H Ganong and Marilyn Coleman Remarried Families PART THREE: RELATIONSHIP PROCESSES - Laura K Guerrero and Peter A Andersen Emotion in Close Relationships - Judith A Feeney, Patricia Noller and Nigel Roberts Attachment and Close Relationships - Susan S Hendrick and Clyde Hendrick Romantic Love - Susan Sprecher and Pamela C Regan Sexuality in a Relational Context - Karen J Prager Intimacy in Personal Relationships - Brant R Burleson, Sandra Metts and Michael W Kirch Communication in Close Relationships - Daniel J Canary and Susan J Messman Relationship Conflict - Michael R Cunningham and Anita P Barbee Social Support - Kathryn Dindia Relational Maintenance - Julia T Wood Gender and Personal Relationships PART FOUR: RELATIONSHIP THREATS - Bram P Buunk and Pieternel Dijkstra Extradyadic Relationships and Jealousy - F Scott Christopher and Sally A Lloyd Physical and Sexual Aggression in Relationships - Steven R H Beach and Heather A O'Mahen-Gray Depression in Close Relationships - John H Harvey and Andrea M Hansen Loss and Bereavement in Close Romantic Relationships
