Personality and Close Relationship Processes

Informationen zum Autor Stanley O. Gaines, Jr (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin) is the author of Culture, Ethnicity, and Personal Relationship Processes (1997) and has written or co-written more than 100 articles and book chapters, primarily in the fields of close relationships and ethnic studies. His areas of specialty include cultural values and ethnic identity, interpersonal traits and attachment styles, and exchange and interdependence processes in close relationships. He has won numerous grants and fellowships from such diverse sources as the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the American Psychological Foundation. This book integrates personality theories and research on attitudes, traits, values, motives, emotions, and moods as influences on close relationship processes. Relationship science is dominated by studies that emphasize situational or outside-person influences on close relationship processes. In contrast, Gaines, Jr emphasizes personality or within-person influences on relationship dynamics. This book integrates personality theories and research on attitudes, traits, values, motives, emotions, and moods as influences on close relationship processes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Behaviorist foundations of the field of close relationships; Part II. Self and Personality Constructs as Reflected in Close Relationship Processes: 2. The self as reflected in close relationship processes; 3. Traits as reflected in close relationship processes; 4. Values as reflected in close relationship processes; 5. Attitudes as reflected in close relationship processes; 6. Motives as reflected in close relationship processes; 7. Emotions as reflected in close relationship processes; Part III. Conclusion: 8. Taking stock of the literature on personality and close relationship processes.

Product details

• Authors: Jr Gaines, Jr Stanley O. Gaines, Stanley O. Gaines, Stanley O. Gaines Jr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2016
• EAN: 9781107109681
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10968-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Advances in Personal Relationships
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Family psychology, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Sociology: family & relationships, Communication Studies, Sociology: family and relationships, Sociology: family, kinship and relationships