Relating To Others 2/E
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 1999
172 pages
978-0-335-23147-8 (ISBN)
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This book addresses the essential use of relationship issues within applied areas such as policing, health care, and the corporate world. It emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary studies and the integration of different frameworks and methods, by focusing less on static factors in relationships and more on the matter of process.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Editor Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: The role of relationships in life
- The development of the field of research in personal relationships
- Life's rich pageant of little things
- Interior needs and concerns of human beings
- Inclusion
- Similarity
- Memory for social experience
- Exterior factors
- Cultural context
- Networks and the relationship of relationships
- Other factors
- Summary and implications for the rest of the book
- Annotated further reading
- Chapter 2: Contexts of relationships
- Meeting people
- Is beauty only skin deep?
- Looking beneath the surface
- Cultural and network contexts
- Beyond the outer limits
- Summary
- Annotated further reading
- Chapter 3: Developing relationships and developing people
- What are we trying to develop when we develop a realtionship?
- 1 Content of interactions
- 2 Diversity of interactions
- 3 Qualities of interactions
- 4 Realtive frequency and patterning of interactions
- 5 Reciprocity and complementarity
- 6 Intimacy
- 7 Interpersonal perception
- 8 Commitment
- Human features and concerns that we take with us into relationships
- Getting acquainted
- What do we need to look for?
- Active, passive and interactive strategies for information gathering
- Self-disclosure and open communication
- Strategies in self-disclosure
- When does avoidance of self-disclosure help a relationship?
- Beyond cognition
- Summary
- Annotated further reading
- Chapter 4: Developing a steady and exclusive partnership
- Courting disaster: some early research approaches
- How 'courtship' grows: some basic views
- Is 'courtship' any different from any other relationship?
- Courtship and others' expectations
- Other aspects of courtship: (1) sex (and possibly violence)
- Dating violence
- Other aspects of courtship: (2) Marital expectations
- Organization of the relationship
- Summary
- Annotated further reading
- Chapter 5: Managing relationships
- Relationships over time: managing the daily trivia
- Does relationship management simply sustain the status quo?
- Roles and relationships
- Role of the network
- How does all this manage relationships?
- Summary
- Annotated further reading
- Chapter 6: When relationships come apart
- Reasons for falling out
- Ineptitude or lack of skills in self-expression
- Tiredness/boredom and lack of stimulation
- 'Other' (e.g., relocation or difficulty of maintenance)
- Processes of falling out
- A model of dissolution
- The intrapsychic phase
- The dyadic phase
- The social phase
- The grave dressing phase
- Summary
- Annotated further reading
- Chapter 7: Putting relationships right
- Some background for enhancement or repair of relationships
- The embeddedness of breakdown and repair in people's lives
- Relationship repair as a project
- Individual backgrounds
- Individuals' problems in relating
- Social skills
- Problems in developing or keeping relationships
- Dealing with sexual dysfnction and enhancing intimacy
- Intrapsychic phase and intrapsychic repair
- Dyadic stage and dyadic solutions
- Social support and the social phase
- Grave digging, grave dressing, and returen from the grave
- Summary
- Annotated further reading
- Chapter 8: Overvies
- Do relationships result from the chemistry of partner attributes?
- Are relationships simply undigested interactions?
- Are relationships 'pots of gold at the end of the rainbow'?
- Are relaters really 'air traffic controllers'?
- Are relationships hermetically sealed individual experiences of 'the social'?
- So
- Glossary
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Back Cover
