Growing Together: Personal Relationships Across the Life SpanFrieder R. Lang, Karen L. Fingerman 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. |
Contents
Relationships as Outcomes and Contexts | 24 |
ChildParent Relationships 155 | 45 |
A Dynamic Ecological Systems Perspective on Emotion | 76 |
Romantic and Marital Relationships | 103 |
Toward a Theory | 130 |
Reciprocity in Individual | 159 |
Peripheral Relationships across | 183 |
Coping and Adaptation across | 210 |
Social Cognition and Social Relationships | 268 |
Dyadic Fits and Transactions in Personality and Relationships | 290 |
Relational Competence across the Life Span | 317 |
Social Motivation across the Life Span | 341 |
A Lifetime of Relationships Mediated by Technology | 368 |
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