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GrowingTogether PersonalRelationshipsacrosstheLifeSpan Understanding personal relationships throughout the life course is one ofthemostcrucialissuesinthebehavioralandsocialsciences.Thisbook bringstogetherperspectivesfromdifferentdisciplinesonindividualde- velopmentandpersonalrelationshipsacrossthelifespan.Thebookad- dressestwopertinentdimensionsofpersonalrelationships:1)structures of relationship networks (e.g., kin vs. non-kin, peripheral vs. intimate, short-termvs.long-term)and2)processes(i.e.,changeorstability)and outcomesofpersonalrelationshipsacrossthelifespan.Thebookstimu- latesdiscussionofpersonalrelationshipsasresourcesforandoutcomesof individualdevelopmentthroughoutthelifecourse.Differentqualitiesof personalrelationshipsserveascatalystsforindividualdevelopment.At thesametime,relationshipqualitiesreflectchangesofdevelopingindivid- uals.Thebookdoesnotgiveexclusiveprioritytoonephaseofthehuman life span. Rather, each chapter addresses social development across the entirelifespanfromchildhoodtolateradulthood. FriederR.LangisProfessorofDevelopmentalPsychologyattheMartin- Luther-Universita¨t Halle-Wittenberg. His research is on self-regulatory andcontrolprocessesinsocialrelationshipsacrossthelifespan.Hehas publishednumerousjournalarticlesandbookchapters.HewasaFellow attheMax-PlanckInstituteforHumanDevelopmentandhasworkedasa memberoftheBerlinAgingStudysince1994.TheGermanResearchFoun- dation(DFG)hasfundedhisresearchprojectonsuccessfulagingandlife experience(1996–1999,togetherwithMargretM.Baltes).Hehasreceived severalawardsforhiswork.AmongtheseistheMargretBaltesAward forEarlyCareerAchievementinBehavioralandSocialGerontologyfrom theGerontologicalSocietyofAmericain2000. KarenL.FingermanisAssociateProfessorofChildandFamilyStudies andBernerHanleyUniversityScholaratPurdueUniversity.Shehascon- ducted research and published numerous scholarly articles on positive andnegativeemotionsinsocialrelationships.TheNationalInstituteon Aging as well as the Brookdale Foundation has funded her work. She receivedtheSpringerAwardforEarlyCareerAchievementinResearch onAdultDevelopmentandAgingfromDivision20oftheAmericanPsy- chological Association and the Margret Baltes Award for Early Career AchievementinBehavioralandSocialGerontologyfromtheGerontolog- icalSocietyofAmericain1999. ADVANCES IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS HARRY T. REIS UniversityofRochester MARY ANNE FITZPATRICK UniversityofWisconsin-Madison ANITA L. VANGELISTI UniversityofTexas,Austin Although scholars from a variety of disciplines have written and con- versed about the importance of personal relationships for decades, the emergenceofpersonalrelationshipsasafieldofstudyisrelativelyrecent. AdvancesinPersonalRelationshipsrepresentstheculminationofyearsof multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary work on personal relationships. Sponsored by the International Association for Relationship Research, the series offers readers cutting-edge research and theory in the field. Contributingauthorsareinternationallyknownscholarsfromavarietyof disciplines,includingsocialpsychology,clinicalpsychology,communica- tion,history,sociology,gerontology,andfamilystudies.Volumesinclude integrativereviews,conceptualpieces,summariesofresearchprograms, and major theoretical works. Advances in Personal Relationships presents first-ratescholarshipthatisbothprovocativeandtheoreticallygrounded. Thetheoreticalandempiricalworkdescribedbyauthorswillstimulate readers and advance the field by offering up new ideas and retooling oldones.Theserieswillbeofinteresttoupperdivisionundergraduate students,graduatestudents,researchers,andpractitioners. OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES Attribution,CommunicationBehavior,andCloseRelationships ValerieManusovandJohnH.Harvey StabilityandChangeinRelationships AnitaL.Vangelisti,HarryT.Reis,andMaryAnneFitzpatrick UnderstandingMarriage:DevelopmentsintheStudyofCoupleInteraction PatriciaNollerandJudithA.Feeney Growing Together Personal Relationships across the Life Span Editedby FRIEDER R. LANG Martin-Luther-Universita¨t Halle-Wittenberg KAREN L. FINGERMAN PurdueUniversity cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521813105 © Cambridge University Press 2004 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2004 isbn-13 978-0-511-19573-0 eBook (NetLibrary) isbn-10 0-511-19573-7 eBook (NetLibrary) isbn-13 978-0-521-81310-5 hardback isbn-10 0-521-81310-7 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. ToMargretM.Balteswithgratitude Contents Contributors page xi Acknowledgments xv 1 Coming Together: A Perspective on Relationships across the LifeSpan 1 KarenL.FingermanandFriederR.Lang 2 RelationshipsasOutcomesandContexts 24 ToniC.Antonucci,ElizabethS.Langfahl,andHirokoAkiyama 3 Child-ParentRelationships 45 PeterNoackandHeikeM.Buhl 4 ADynamicEcologicalSystemsPerspectiveonEmotion RegulationDevelopmentwithintheSiblingRelationship Context 76 VictoriaHilkevitchBedfordandBrendaL.Volling 5 RomanticandMaritalRelationships 103 Hans-WernerBierhoffandMartinaSchmohr 6 CloseRelationshipsacrosstheLifeSpan:TowardaTheoryof RelationshipTypes 130 KeikoTakahashi 7 FriendshipacrosstheLifeSpan:ReciprocityinIndividualand RelationshipDevelopment 159 RosemaryBliesznerandKarenA.Roberto 8 The Consequential Stranger: Peripheral Relationships across theLifeSpan 183 KarenL.Fingerman 9 StressinSocialRelationships:CopingandAdaptationacross theLifeSpan 210 KarenRook,DaraSorkin,andLauraZettel ix
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