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Informationen zum Autor Brett Laursen is Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Training at Florida Atlantic University. His research focuses on parent-child and peer relationships during childhood and adolescence, and the influence of these relationships on individual social and academic adjustment. Dr. Laursen is a Docent Professor of Social Developmental Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is currently the Methods and Measures Editor at the International Journal of Behavioral Development . Dr. Laursen is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 7, Developmental) and a Fellow and Charter Member of the Association for Psychological Science. In 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from Örebro University, Sweden. Dr. Laursen has edited or co-edited several books and monographs, the most recent being the Handbook of Developmental Research Methods . W. Andrew Collins is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Child Development and Psychology at the University of Minnesota. A graduate of Stanford University, Dr. Collins conducts research on parent and peer relationships and influences during adolescence and young adulthood. He is principal investigator of the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, in which participants have been followed from birth to age 34. Currently editor of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development , he is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He served as president of the Society for Research on Adolescence from 2000-2002. Dr. Collins has edited or co-edited several books and monographs and has contributed numerous book and handbook chapters, as well as articles in scholarly journals. Klappentext This book is designed to guide students through the latest developments of theory and research on relationships from adolescence to young adulthood. Unique to this text is a focus on relationship change across middle childhood into adolescence and across late adolescence into early adulthood. Experts on adolescent relationships from across the globe summarize the current state of literature on family and peer relationships, as well as the environmental and genetic factors that influence them. Students will benefit from the comprehensive, rigorous, yet accessible overview of key content; such as what defines the relationship processes, what describes the individual and contextual factors that influence relationships, family relationships, sibling relationships, and parent-child relationships during the transition into adolescence and into young adulthood. Zusammenfassung This book guides the reader through the research on close relationships before, during, and after adolescence with contributions from some of the world's foremost experts on adolescent relationships. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1. Family Relationships Chapter 1. Transformations in Close Relationship Networks: Parent-Child Relationships and their Social Extensions - W. Andrew Collins, Jose Causadias, and K. Lee Raby Chapter 2. Transformations in Parent-Child Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood - Nancy Galambos and Lauren Kotylak Chapter 3. Transformation in Sibling Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood - Lilly Shanahan, Evelyn Waite, and Timothy Boyd Part 2. Friendships and Friend Networks Chapter 4. Transformations in Friend Relationships Across the Transition into Adolescence - Chris Hafen, Brett Laursen, and Dawn DeLay Chapter 5. Transformations in Friend Relationships Across the Transition into Adulthood - Chong Man Chow, Holly Roelse, Duane Buhrmester, and Marion K. Underwood Chapter 6. Adolescent Friendship Bonds in Cultures of Connectedness - Barry H. Schneider, Matthew Lee, and Ibis Alvarez Valdivia Chapter 7. Transformations in Adolescent Peer Networks - René Veenstra and Jan...
