Growing together : personal relationships across the life span

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Title:

Author:

Fingerman, Karen L.

ISBN:

9780521813105

Publication Information:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Physical Description:

xv, 414 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Advances in personal relationships

Advances in personal relationships (Cambridge, England)

Contents:

Coming together: a perspective on relationships across the life span -- Relationships as outcomes and contexts -- Child-parent relationships -- A dynamic ecological systems perspective on emotion regulation development within the sibling relationship context -- Romantic and marital relationships -- Close relationships across the life span: toward a theory of relationship types -- Friendship across the life span: reciprocity in individual and relationship development -- The consequential stranger: peripheral relationships across the life span -- Stress in social relationships: coping and adaptation across the life span -- Social support and physical health across the life span: socioemotional influences -- Social cognition and social relationships -- Dyadic fits and transactions in personality and relationships -- Relational competence across the life span -- Social motivation across the lifespan: a goal-resource-congruence model of social relationships -- A lifetime of relationships mediated by technology.

Subject Term:

Interpersonal relations.

Developmental psychology.

Added Author:

Fingerman, Karen L.

Lang, Frieder R., 1962-

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/2002041683.html

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Summary

Understanding personal relationships throughout the life course is one of the most crucial issues in the behavioral and social sciences. This book brings together perspectives from different disciplines on individual development and personal relationships across the life span. The book addresses two pertinent dimensions of personal relationships: 1) structures of relationship networks (e.g. kin vs non-kin, peripheral vs intimate, short-term vs long-term) and 2) processes (i.e. change or stability) and outcomes of personal relationships across the life span. The book stimulates discussion of personal relationships as resources for and outcomes of individual development throughout the life course. Different qualities of personal relationships serve as catalysts for individual development. At the same time, relationship qualities reflect changes of developing individuals. The book does not give exclusive priority to one phase of the human life span. Rather, each chapter addresses social development across the entire life span from childhood to later adulthood.