About the Book
This volume brings together for the first time the papers which have shaped and defined the field of interpersonal development. It celebrates the maturation of the subject by bringing together the best work by scholars who have been instrumental in furthering the field. The twenty-seven essays describe developmental changes in interactions within specific close relationships, covering parent-child relationships, friendships and peer relationships, romantic and spousal relationships, and sibling relationships. They also detail characteristics of specific relationships and interconnections among these key features, as well as tying close relationships to individual outcomes. The essays are accompanied by an introduction which offers a brief history of the field, a review of relationship definitions and a detailed preview of the articles.
Table of Contents:
Series preface; Introduction; Part I Prologue: The relationship context of human behavior and development, H.T. Reis, W.A. Collins and E. Berscheid; A developmental guide to the organisation of close relationships, B. Laursen and W.M. Bukowski; The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation, R.F. Baumeister, M.R. Leary.; Part II Parent-Child Relationships: A reinterpretation of the direction of effects in studies of socialization, R.Q. Bell; Attachment as an organizational construct, L.A. Stroufe and E. Waters; Child adaptational development in contexts of interparental conflict over time, P.T. Davies, M.L. Sturge-Apple, M.A. Winter, E.M. Cummings and D. Farrell; Mutually responsive orientation between mothers and their children: implications for early socialization, G. Kochanska; Parenting style as context: an integrative model, N. Darling and L. Steinberg; Reconsidering changes in parent-child conflict across adolescence. A meta-analysis, B. Laursen, K.C. Coy and W.A. Collins.; Part III Friendships and Peer relationships: Age and sex differences in perceptions of networks of personal relationships, W. Furman and D. Buhrmester; Having friends, keeping friends, making friends and being liked by peers in the classroom: predictors of children's early school adjustment?, G.W. Ladd; Social networks and aggressive behavior: peer support or peer rejection?, R.B. Cairns, B.D. Cairns, H.J. Neckerman, S.D. Jest and J-L. Gariepy; Bullying as a group process: participant roles in their relations to social status within the group, C. Salmivalli, K. Lagerspetz, K. Bjorkqvist, K. Osterman and A. Kaukiainen; Homophily, selection and socialization in adolescent friendships, D.B. Kandel; Rehabilitation of socially withdrawn preschool children through mixed-age and same-age socialization, W. Furman, D.F. Rahe and W.W. Hartup; Preadolescent friendship and peer rejection as predictors of adult adjustment, C.L. Bagwell, A.F. Newcombe and W.M. Bukowski.; Part IV Romantic and Spousal Relationships: Romantic love as an attachment process, C. Hazen and P. Shaver; Sexual strategies theory: an evolutionary perspective on human mating, D.M. Buss and D.P. Schmitt; The social structure of urban adolescent peer groups, D.C. Dunphy; Testing theories of romantic development from adolescence to young adulthood: evidence of a developmental sequence, I. Seiffge-Krenke; The roles of conflict engagement, escalation, and avoidance in marital interaction: a longitudinal view of 5 types of couples, J.M. Gottman.; Part V Sibling Relationships: Why are children of the same family so different from each other?, R. Plomin, D. Daniels; Sibling relationships in early childhood, J. Dunn; 'All the sheeps are dead. He murdered them.' Sibling pretense, negotiation, internal state language and relationship quality, N. Howe, H. Petrakos and C. Rinaldi; Children's perceptions of the fairness of parental preferential treatment and their socioemotional well-being, A. Kowal, L. Kramer, J. Krull and C. Crick; Sibling collusion and problem behavior in early adolescence, B.M. Bullock, T.J. Dishion; Contributions of family relationships and child temperaments to lingitudinal variations in sibling relationship quality and sibling relationship styles, G.H. Brody, Z.Stoneman and J.K. McCoy; Index.
About the Author :
Brett Laursen is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, USA. Rita Zukauskiene is Professor of Psychology at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
