ABSTRACT
This textbook provides an integrated and organized foundation for students seeking a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of relationship science. It emphasizes the relationship field's intellectual themes, roots, and milestones; discusses its key constructs and their conceptualizations; describes its methodologies and classic studies; and, most important, presents the theories that have guided relationship scholars and produced the field's major research themes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|62 pages
Relationships: The Web of Life
part 2|96 pages
Relationship Science
part 3|66 pages
Relationship Initiation and Development
part 4|97 pages
Relationship Processes
part 5|69 pages
Mating Relationships
part 6|64 pages
Relationships Over Time