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9780415186476

Personal Relationships Across the Lifespan

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415186476

  • ISBN10:

    0415186471

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-02-01
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Summary

This unique text examines the nature of our relationships across the entire lifespan, highlighting areas of special significance and research interest at each major life-stage.

Table of Contents

List of figures
ix
List of tables
xi
Introduction
1(5)
Stages of the Lifespan
2(1)
Important Themes in Relationship Development
2(1)
Cultural and Subcultural Issues
3(1)
The Effects of One Relationship on Another
4(1)
Methodological Issues
4(1)
Organization of this Volume
5(1)
Infancy and Childhood
6(40)
Before the First Relationship: from General Sociability to the Threshold of Attachment
7(1)
The Maturation of Readiness for a Relationship
7(4)
Defining Attachment
11(1)
The Roots of Attachment in Mother-Infant Interaction
11(3)
Attachment as an Integrated Behavioural System
14(1)
Naturalistic and Laboratory-based Assessments of Infant-Parent Attachment
14(2)
The Strange Situation
16(3)
What Determines a Secure Parent-Child Attachment?
19(2)
Relationship with Parents during Childhood: Long-term Consequences
21(2)
Social Intelligence: Growth of a Theory of Mind
23(1)
Opposition and Negotiation in the Parent-Toddler Relationship: The Phenomenon of Negativism
24(2)
Acquiring Persuasion Skills
26(2)
Family Dialogue and Household Work
28(1)
Parental Discipline Strategies
29(2)
Marital Conflict and Children's Development
31(2)
Siblings and Development
33(3)
Differential Parental Treatment and Sibling Rivalry
36(3)
Sibling-Sibling Interaction and Individual Development
39(1)
Peers as Playmates and Agents of Socialization
39(2)
The Peer Group and Sociometric Measurement
41(2)
Predictors of Popularity
43(1)
Summary
44(2)
Relationships During Adolescence
46(35)
Parent-Adolescent Relationships
46(12)
Developments in Peer Relationships
58(11)
Romantic Relationships
69(10)
Summary and Conclusions
79(2)
Early Adulthood
81(24)
Becoming an Adult
81(1)
The Importance of Relationships with Parents
82(1)
Sibling Relationships
83(3)
Living Together
86(2)
Marriage
88(5)
Transition to Parenthood
93(4)
Adult Friendships
97(4)
Social Support
101(3)
Summary and Conclusions
104(1)
Relationships in Middle Age
105(14)
Defining Middle Age
105(1)
Gender and Middle Age
106(1)
Marital Relationships in Middle Age
106(6)
Parenting in Midlife
112(1)
Attachments in Relationships between Adult Children and their Parents
113(4)
Friendships in Midlife
117(1)
Summary
118(1)
Personal Relationships and the Elderly
119(21)
Defining Old Age
119(1)
Pessimistic Views of Later Life
119(1)
Importance of Relationships in Later Life
120(1)
Ambivalent Relations between Family Members and Elderly People
120(1)
Transitions in Later Life
121(2)
Dealing with Change
123(1)
Marriage Relationships in Later Life
123(2)
Loss of Spouse
125(1)
Relationships with Adult Children
126(1)
Sibling Relationships in Later Life
127(1)
Grandparenting
128(3)
Variables Affecting the Grandparent-Grandchild Relationship
131(1)
Friendships in Later Life
132(2)
Illness and the Elderly
134(1)
Care of the Elderly
135(2)
Elder Abuse
137(1)
Future Trends in Relationships of the Elderly
138(1)
Summary
139(1)
Relationships Across the Lifespan: Key Themes and Concepts
140(9)
Attachment
140(1)
Intimacy
141(1)
Communication
142(1)
Conflict
143(1)
Power and Control
144(1)
Cultural and Subcultural Issues
145(1)
Effects of One Relationship on Another
146(1)
Future Patterns in Family Relationships
147(2)
References 149(30)
Author index 179(8)
Subject index 187

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