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With the field of personal relationships continuing to see significant growth over the past quarter century, The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships stands as a crucial benchmark of the current state of scholarship. This third edition presents new chapters addressing significant changes in techniques for studying relationships and examining recent emphases on technology and diverse relationships while also featuring a fresh analysis of current research foci and applications. By synthesizing theoretical and empirical literature, the work not only traces the discipline's historical roots but recommends future directions, marking an important step forward in improving research and theory on personal relationships across a broad scope. Featuring contributions from internationally known experts who have significantly enhanced relationship research in multiple fields including psychology, communication, family studies, and sociology, it is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners alike.
List of contents
Personal relationships: an introduction; 1. The tides of change: recent trends and developments in close relationships research; 2. Theories and research in personal relationships; 3. Lift every voice: an inclusive perspective on considering methodological trade-offs in relationships research; 4. Dyadic data analysis: current issues and directions; 5. Relationship beginnings: selection and initiation; 6. Relationship development and growth; 7. The longitudinal course of couple relationships; 8. Recent advances in research on children's friendships; 9. Personal relationships with parents and peers in adolescence; 10. Close relationships in middle and late adulthood; 11. Family systems and family relationships: family subsystems across diverse families; 12. Personality influences in relationships: how self-esteem, neuroticism, and agreeableness affect hurt feelings; 13. Internal working models of attachment: a lifespan perspective; 14. Ethnicity, culture, and close relationships: examining intraracial and interracial relationships; 15. Relationship neuroscience; 16. Interpersonal social cognition and relationship evaluation; 17. Communication: basic properties and their relevance to relationship research; 18. How communal relational contexts shape (and are shaped by) emotional lives; 19. Self-disclosure in relationships: disclosure dynamics as a seismograph of relationship quality; 20. Social support in close relationships; 21. Understanding couple conflict; 22. Sexuality in relationships: highlights and oversights from recent research; 23. Transgressions, (un)forgiveness and revenge; 24. Stress and dyadic coping; 25. Aggression and violence in romantic relationships; 26. Understanding the problem of loneliness and the challenge of addressing it; 27. Relationship dissolution; 28. Love in relationships; 29. Relationship satisfaction; 30. Commitment processes in close relationships; 31. Relationships and physical health; 32. Social networks and personal relationships; 33. Friendships and acquaintanceships; 34. Technology and personal relationships; 35. Examining intimate relationships across black populations with a focus on context: socioeconomic status and racial discrimination; 36. Promoting healthy couple relationships; 37. Maintaining relationships; 38. Treating relationship distress; 39. Teaching relationship science; 40. Relationship science: a hard look at the state of the science and an agenda for moving forward; Index.
