Interpersonal Relationships and Health
Social and Clinical Psychological Mechanisms
Published on 24. July 2014
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-993663-2 (ISBN)
Description
Gathering leading thinkers in social and clinical psychology, public health, medicine, and sociology, Interpersonal Relationships and Health considers theoretical and empirical issues relevant to understanding the social and clinical psychological mechanisms linking close relationship processes with mental and physical health outcomes. The volume arises out of a recent explosion of interest, across multiple academic and research fields, in the ways that interpersonal relationships affect health and well-being. This volume pulls together a range of scholars who focus on different aspects of relationships and health in order to encourage both collaboration and cross-disciplinary initiatives. This is the first edited volume to pull together noted experts across myriad disciplines whose research is at the intersection of human relationships and health. Topics addressed include key biological processes that influence and, in turn, are influenced by close relationships. Interpersonal Relationships and Health presents research that demonstrates the connections between interpersonal relationships, mental and physical health outcomes, and biophysical markers that figure prominently in the fields of psychoneuroimmunology, endocrinology, and cardiology. In addition, it highlights recent work on marital, family, and social relationships and their interplay with health and well-being. Chapters also address sexual health among young and older adults, as well as clinical intervention efforts that focus on the role of relational factors in influencing health. Each chapter highlights extant theoretical and empirical findings and suggests future avenues for research in this burgeoning area.
Reviews / Votes
This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in the intersection of close relationships and health, but it would be informative even for relationship science scholars who do not have specific interests in health research as the research and theories presented can inform and expand understanding of basic relationship processes This book does a good job of explaining how interpersonal relationships impact health and well-being. It explores both biological and psychological factors while presenting theories and intervention strategies. It will appeal to a wide audience. * Doody's Notes * This book serves as a significant contribution to the study of both relationships and health... I would highly recommend Interpersonal Relationships and Health to relationship and health scientists. The book should serve as a motivation to more researchers to integrate relationship science with the study of health behavior. Additionally, it may prompt more collaboration between social and clinical researchers when studying relationships and health. Much can be learned by bridging these two important perspectives on health. * PsycCritiques *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-993663-2 (9780199936632)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Susan C. South Christoper R. Agnew
Interpersonal Relationships and Health: Social and Clinical Psychological Mechanisms
Social and Clinical Psychological Mechanisms
E-Book
05/2014
1st Edition
Oxford University Press
€113.39
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Persons
Christopher R. Agnew, Ph.D., is Professor and Head of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. His research focuses on close, interpersonal relationships and the use of relational models to understand broader social and health processes. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and served as President of the International Association for Relationship Research.
Susan C. South, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. Her research investigates the links between marriage and personality and psychopathology. She has published widely on the assessment of marital satisfaction, the links between mental illness and marital distress, and the gene-environment interplay between marital dysfunction and mental illness.
Susan C. South, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. Her research investigates the links between marriage and personality and psychopathology. She has published widely on the assessment of marital satisfaction, the links between mental illness and marital distress, and the gene-environment interplay between marital dysfunction and mental illness.
Author
Professor and Head, Department of Psychological SciencesProfessor and Head, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychological SciencesAssistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
Content
Preface ; Contributors ; Part One: Introduction ; Interpersonal Relationships and Health: Where the Social and Clinical Converge ; Christopher R. Agnew and Susan C. South ; Part Two: Biology of Interpersonal Relationships ; 1. Relationship Researchers Put the 'Psycho' in Psychoneuroimmunology ; Timothy J. Loving and Elizabeth Keneski ; 2. On Marriage and the Heart: Models, Methods, and Mechanisms in the Study of Close Relationships and Cardiovascular Disease ; Timothy W. Smith, Carolynne E. Baron, and Catherine M. Caska ; 3. Family Relationships and Cortisol in Everyday Life ; Richard B. Slatcher ; 4. Divorce and Health Outcomes: From Social Epidemiology to Social Psychophysiology ; David A. Sbarra, Widyasita Nojopranoto, and Karen Hasselmo ; Part Three: Marital, Family, and Social Relationships, Health and Well-Being ; 5. It Sometimes Takes Two: Marriage as a Mechanism for Managing Chronic Illness ; Mary Ann Parris Stephens, Rachel C. Hemphill, Karen S. Rook, and Melissa M. Franks ; 6. The Couple and Family Discord Model of Depression: Updates and Future Directions ; Steven R. H. Beach ; 7. Intimate Partner Violence: A Biopsychosocial, Social Information Processing Perspective ; Christopher M. Murphy, Amber E.Q. Norwood, and Gina M. Poole ; 8. Interparental Conflict and Children's Mental Health: Emerging Directions in Emotional Security Theory ; E. Mark Cummings, Kalsea J. Koss, and Rebecca Y. M. Cheung ; 9. Social Connectedness at Older Ages and Implications for Health and Well-Being ; Linda J. Waite, James Iveniuk, and Edward O. Laumann ; 10. Trajectories of Within-Relationship Relationship Quality, Relationship Satisfaction and Sexual Satisfaction among Young African-American Women ; J. Dennis Fortenberry and Devon J. Hensel ; 11. Personality Effects on Risky Sexual Behavior: The Importance of Dynamic Situational Processes and Relational Contexts ; M. Lynne Cooper and Ruixue Zhaoyang ; Part Four: Synthesizing Social and Clinical Approaches to Relationships and Health ; 12. Putting it all Together: Synthesizing Social and Clinical Approaches to Relationships and Health ; Susan C. South