Relationship Maintenance: Theory, Process, and Context

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Brian G. Ogolsky, J. Kale Monk
Cambridge University Press, 2020 - 401 páginas
"This book serves as a contemporary attempt to bring together the vast literature on relationship maintenance with contributions from scholars across different fields who study diverse facets of relationship maintenance. We open the book with a brief chapter that is organized around the six most basic yet critical questions that cut across all research: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. In the first section ('who'), we discuss the types of people who perform relationship maintenance as well as differences across people. The 'what' section identifies the central definitional issues that continue to plague the field. The third section ('when') highlights the conditions under which people perform maintenance as well as the relationship challenges the prompt it. The 'where' section identifies the small body of literature on geographic differences in relationship maintenance. The 'why' section covers the principal theories that explain engagement in relationship maintenance activities. The final section comments on 'how' maintenance activities sustain or enhance relationships. That is, it outlines the correlates, mediators, and moderators that explain the mechanisms by which maintenance operates. We conclude our chapter with a brief overview of the organization of the book"--Provided by publisher.
 

Contenido

Interdependence Perspectives on Relationship Maintenance
15
An Evolutionary Life History Theory Perspective on Relationship
29
Relationship Maintenance from an Attachment Perspective
47
Uncertainty Perspectives on Relationship Maintenance
69
The SelfExpansion Model and Relationship Maintenance
86
Communication and Relationship Maintenance
109
Maintenance Processes
134
Social Networks and Relationship Maintenance
152
Sex as Relationship Maintenance
215
Accuracy and Bias in Relationship Maintenance
240
Gender and Race Perspectives on Relationship Maintenance
265
Relationship Maintenance across Cultural Groups
284
Relationship Maintenance in the Age of Technology
304
Relationship Maintenance across the Life Course
323
Relationship Maintenance in Couple Therapy and Relationship
339
Past Present
369

Dyadic Coping as Relationship Maintenance
178
Conflict Management and Problem Solving as Relationship
194

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Brian G. Ogolsky is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has won the International Association for Relationship Research's Book Award and several teaching awards for his mentorship and classroom teaching of statistics, methods, and intimate relationships. J. Kale Monk is a fellow of the Center for Family Policy and Research and Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Missouri. He has received awards for scholarship from the International Association for Relationship Research, the National Council on Family Relations, and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

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