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The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relation- versity of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses shipsservesasabenchmarkofthecurrentstateof ontheassociationsbetweencommunicationand scholarshipinthisdynamicfield,synthesizingthe emotion in the context of close, personal rela- extant theoretical and empirical literature, trac- tionships. She has published numerous arti- ingitshistoricalroots,andmakingrecommenda- cles and chapters and has edited several books. tionsforfuturedirections.Thevolumeaddresses Vangelisti has served on the editorial boards abroadrangeofestablishedandemergingtopics, of over a dozen scholarly journals and has including theoretical and methodological issues received recognition for her research from the thatinfluencethestudyofpersonalrelationships; National Communication Association and the researchandtheoryonrelationshipdevelopment; International Society for the Study of Personal the nature and functions of personal relation- Relationships. ships across the life span; individual differences andtheirinfluencesonrelationships;relationship Daniel Perlman is an academic psychologist processes such as cognition, emotion, and com- with broad, applied interests that cut across munication; relational qualities such as satisfac- social, developmental, and clinical psychology tionandcommitment;environmentalinfluences as focused on the study of close relationships. on personal relationships; and maintenance and He is a professor of Family Studies and also repair of relationships. The authors are experts teachesintheDepartmentofPsychologyatthe from a variety of disciplines, including several University of British Columbia. He was presi- subfields of psychology, communication, family dent of the International Society for the Study studies,andsociology,whohavemademajorcon- ofPersonalRelationshipsandtheCanadianPsy- tributionstotheunderstandingofrelationships. chological Association. He has authored more than 50 articles, edited or authored 15 books, Anita L. Vangelisti is a professor in the Depart- and been the editor or associate editor for four ment of Communication Studies at the Uni- journals. The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships (cid:1) Edited by Anita L. Vangelisti and Daniel Perlman cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress 40West20thStreet,NewYork,ny10011-4211,usa www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521826174 (cid:1)c CambridgeUniversityPress2006 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2006 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData TheCambridgehandbookofpersonalrelationships/editedbyAnitaL.Vangelisti, DanielPerlman. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn-13:978-0-521-82617-4 (hardcover) isbn-10:0-521-82617-9 (hardcover) isbn-13:978-0-521-53359-1(pbk.) isbn-10:0-521-53359-7(pbk.) 1.Interpersonalrelations–Handbooks,manuals,etc. 2.Interpersonal communication–Handbooks,manuals,etc. 3.Socialpsychology– Handbooks,manuals,etc. I.Vangelisti,AnitaL. II.Perlman,Daniel. isbn-13 978-0-521-82617-4 hardback isbn-10 0-521-82617-9 hardback isbn-13 978-0-521-53359-1paperback isbn-10 0-521-53359-7paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityfor thepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsforexternalor third-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch Websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Contents Preface pageix 4. ResearchMethodsfortheStudy EllenBerscheid ofPersonalRelationships 51 MahnazCharania Contributors xvii WilliamJ.Ickes part i 5. AdvancesinDataAnalytic ApproachesforRelationships INTRODUCTION Research:TheBroadUtility 1. PersonalRelationships:An ofHierarchicalLinear Introduction 3 Modeling 73 DanielPerlman DeborahA.Kashy AnitaL.Vangelisti LorneCampbell DavidW.Harris part ii 6. RelationshipTypologies 91 FOUNDATIONSFORSTUDYING C.ArthurVanLear RELATIONSHIPS AscanKoerner 2. TheSevenSeasoftheStudyof DonnaM.Allen PersonalRelationships:From part iii “TheThousandIslands”to InterconnectedWaterways 11 DEVELOPMENTOF DanielPerlman RELATIONSHIPS SteveDuck 7. FromCourtshiptoUniversal 3. TheoreticalPerspectivesinthe Properties:ResearchonDating StudyofCloseRelationships 35 andMateSelection,1950 to2003 113 JohnH.Harvey CatherineA.Surra AmyWenzel ChristineR.Gray v vi contents TyfanyM.J.Boettcher 16. TheIntimateSame-Sex NathanR.Cottle RelationshipsofSexual AdamR.West Minorities 293 8. TheAffectiveStructureof LisaM.Diamond Marriage 131 17. FamilyRelationshipsand JohnP.Caughlin Depression 313 TedL.Huston DeborahJ.Jones 9. DivorceandPostdivorce StevenR.H.Beach Relationships 157 FrankD.Fincham MarilynColeman LawrenceGanong part vi KimLeon BASICPROCESSES 18. Communication:Basic part iv PropertiesandTheir RELATIONSHIPSACROSSTHE RelevancetoRelationship LIFESPAN Research 331 10. RelationshipsinEarlyand AlanL.Sillars MiddleChildhood 177 AnitaL.Vangelisti WillardW.Hartup 19. SocialCognitioninIntimate Relationships 353 11. PersonalRelationshipsin GarthJ.O.Fletcher AdolescenceandEarly Adulthood 191 NickolaC.Overall MyronD.Friesen W.AndrewCollins StephanieD.Madsen 20. EmotioninTheoriesofClose Relationships 369 12. CloseRelationshipsinMiddle andLateAdulthood 211 SallyPlanalp JulieFitness RosemaryBlieszner BeverleyFehr 21. PhysiologyandInterpersonal part v Relationships 385 INDIVIDUALDIFFERENCES TimothyJ.Loving 13. PersonalityandRelationships:A KathiL.Heffner TemperamentPerspective 231 JaniceK.Kiecolt-Glaser JeffryA.Simpson part vii HeikeA.Winterheld JennieY.Chen INTERACTIVEPROCESSES 14. AttachmentTheory, 22. Self-DisclosureinPersonal IndividualPsychodynamics, Relationships 409 andRelationship KathrynGreene Functioning 251 ValerianJ.Derlega PhillipR.Shaver AliciaMathews MarioMikulincer 23. CloseRelationshipsandSocial 15. “His”and“Her”Relationships?A Support:Implicationsfor ReviewoftheEmpirical theMeasurementofSocial Evidence 273 Support 429 EmilyA.Impett BarbaraR.Sarason LetitiaAnnePeplau IrwinG.Sarason contents vii 24. UnderstandingCoupleConflict 445 34. IntimacyinPersonal GalenaH.Kline Relationships 637 NicoleD.Pleasant Jean-PhilippeLaurenceau SarahW.Whitton BrighidM.Kleinman HowardJ.Markman 25. SexualityinCloseRelationships 463 part x CONTEXT SusanSprecher F.ScottChristopher 35. SocialNetworksandPersonal RodneyCate Communities 657 part viii GrahamAllan THREATSTORELATIONSHIPS 36. RelationshipsinHomeand CommunityEnvironments:A 26. LonelinessandSocialIsolation 485 TransactionalandDialectic JennydeJongGierveld Analysis 673 TheovanTilburg BarbaraB.Brown PearlA.Dykstra CarolM.Werner 27. StressinCouples:TheProcessof IrwinAltman DyadicCoping 501 37. Relationships,Culture,and CarolynE.Cutrona SocialChange 695 KelliA.Gardner RobinGoodwin 28. LyingandDeceptioninClose UrmilaPillay Relationships 517 38. PersonalRelationships:Onand MarkL.Knapp OfftheInternet 709 29. TemptationsandThreat: JeffreyBoase ExtradyadicRelationsand BarryWellman Jealousy 533 AbrahamP.Buunk part xi PieternelDijkstra MAINTENANCEANDREPAIROF 30. ViolenceandAbuseinPersonal RELATIONSHIPS Relationships:Conflict,Terror, 39. MaintainingRelationships 727 andResistanceinIntimate Partnerships 557 DanielJ.Canary MarianneDainton MichaelP.Johnson 40. TheTreatmentofRelationship part ix Distress:TheoreticalPerspectives andEmpiricalFindings 745 RELATIONALQUALITIES DonaldH.Baucom 31. RelationshipSatisfaction 579 NormanB.Epstein FrankD.Fincham SusanStanton StevenR.H.Beach 32. RomanticLove 595 part xii ArthurAron CONCLUSION HelenE.Fisher 41. BringingItAllTogether:A GregStrong TheoreticalApproach 769 33. Commitment 615 PatriciaNoller CarylE.Rusbult MichaelK.Coolsen AuthorIndex 791 JeffreyL.Kirchner JenniferA.Clarke SubjectIndex 828 Preface For volumes that review the present state tionships was in doubt. As a consequence, of knowledge in dynamic, rapidly evolv- and to be on the safe side, many of us ing fields, the label handbook seems only adopted the convention of referring to the marginallyappropriate.Whenonethinksof relationship field as “emerging,” a practice a handbook, one visualizes a person hold- noted with exasperation in the late 1980s ing a plumbing manual in one hand and a by Steve Duck, the editor of the first rela- wrenchintheotherand,aftertheleakypipe tionship handbook, the Handbook of Per- hasbeenfixed,puttingthemanualawayfor sonal Relationships (1988). In his introduc- use another day, confident that the princi- tory remarks, Duck took a deep breath ples of plumbing will not change substan- and dared to declare that the field had tially from one year to the next or even emerged, putting its birth about 10 years very much from one decade to the next. earlier, in the late 1970s. A second edition Relationship science, in contrast, is a large of that first handbook appeared 10 years and still loosely organized field that con- later (Duck, 1997) and only 3 years after tinues to expand rapidly in all directions, that a relationship “sourcebook” edited by itsmomentumfueledpartlybytheinternal ClydeandSusanHendrick(2000)waspub- combustion provided by the theorists and lished. In between and since, several edited researchers who form the core of the field topical “mini-handbooks” have been pub- andpartlybyscholarsinotherfieldswhorec- lished, each devoted to a subject of special ognize the relevance of relationship theory interest to relationship researchers, as Dan and research to their own problems. Rela- Perlman and Duck note in their historical tionship science is, in short, a nova in the reviewchapterinthisbook. heavens of the social, behavioral, and bio- The continuing high volume of activity logicalsciences. in the relationship field places a heavy bur- Not so long ago, the future of a field den on relationship scholars. There is too devotedtounderstandinginterpersonalrela- much to learn, and far too little time in ix
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