Growing Together - Personal Relationships Across the Life Span

Klappentext This edited volume integrates research on people's relationships from childhood to later adulthood. Zusammenfassung Understanding personal relationships throughout the life course is a crucial issue in the behavioral and social sciences. This book stimulates discussion of personal relationships as resources for and outcomes of individual development throughout the life course. Each chapter addresses social development across the entire life span. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Coming together: a perspective on relationships across the life span Karen L. Fingerman and Frieder R. Lang; 2. Relationships as outcomes and contexts Toni C. Antonucci, Elizabeth S. Langfahl, and Hiroko Akiyama; 3. Child-parent relationships Peter Noack and Heike M. Buhl; 4. A dynamic ecological systems perspective on emotion regulation development within the sibling relationship context Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford and Brenda L. Volling; 5. Romantic and marital relationships Hans-Werner Bierhoff and Martina Schmohr; 6. Close relationships across the life span: toward a theory of relationship types Keiko Takahashi; 7. Friendship across the life span: reciprocity in individual and relationship development Rosemary Bliezner and Karen A. Roberto; 8. The consequential stranger: peripheral relationships across the life span Karen L. Fingerman; 9. Stress in social relationships: coping and adaptation across the life span Karen Rook, Dara Sorkin and Laura Zettel; 10. Social support and physical health across the life span: socioemotional influences Susan Turk Charles and Shahrzad Mavandadi; 11. Social cognition and social relationships Fredda Blanchard-Fields and Carolyn Cooper; 12. Dyadic fits and transactions in personality and relationships Franz J. Neyer; 13. Relational competence across the life span Robert O. Hansson, Eric L. Daleiden and Bert Hayslip, Jr; 14. Social motivation across the lifespan: a goal-resource-congruence model of social relationships Frieder R. Lang; 15. A lifetime of relationships mediated by technology Rebecca G. Adams and Michelle L. Stevenson; Indexes....

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• Authors: Karen L. Fingerman, Karen L. (Purdue University Fingerman, Karen L. Phd Fingerman, Fingerman Karen L., Frieder R. Lang, Frieder R. (Martin Luther-Universitat Halle- Lang, Frieder R. (Martin Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenburg Lang, Frieder R. Fingerman Lang, Lang Frieder R.
• Assisted by: Frieder R. Lang (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521114936
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11493-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Advances in Personal Relationships; Advances in Personal Relations; Advances in Personal Relationships
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology