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.

part 1|62 pages

Relationships: The Web of Life

chapter 1|30 pages

First Relationships

chapter 2|32 pages

Relationships and Health

part 2|96 pages

Relationship Science

chapter 3|32 pages

The Development of Relationship Science

chapter 4|36 pages

The Concept of Relationship

chapter 5|28 pages

Varieties of Relationship

part 3|66 pages

Relationship Initiation and Development

chapter 6|32 pages

Birth of a Relationship

chapter 7|34 pages

Relationship Growth and Maintenance

part 4|97 pages

Relationship Processes

chapter 8|34 pages

Cognitive Processes

chapter 9|34 pages

Affective Processes

chapter 10|29 pages

Dispositional Influences

part 5|69 pages

Mating Relationships

chapter 11|31 pages

Love

chapter 12|38 pages

Mate Selection and Sex

part 6|64 pages

Relationships Over Time

chapter 13|34 pages

Satisfaction and Stability

chapter 14|30 pages

Intervention and Dissolution