Understanding marriage : developments in the study of couple interaction /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 572 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Advances in personal relationships
Advances in personal relationships (Cambridge, England)
Subject:Marriage.
Interpersonal relations.
Marital conflict.
Married people -- Psychology.
Couples -- Psychology.
Marriage.
Interpersonal Relations.
Spouses -- psychology.
Mariage.
Relations humaines.
Conflits conjugaux.
Couples marieĢs -- Psychologie.
Couples -- Psychologie.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
Couples -- Psychology.
Interpersonal relations.
Marital conflict.
Marriage.
Married people -- Psychology.
Gehuwden.
Sociale interactie.
Psychologische aspecten.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11132390
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Noller, Patricia.
Feeney, Judith.
ISBN:9780511500077
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Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:This book draws together a wide range of new developments in the study of marital interaction. The book should be of great interest both to those who study couple interaction, and to those who work with couples to help them resolve their differences, and improve their communication.
Other form:Print version: Understanding marriage. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521803705
Standard no.:9780511063596
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Effect of Cognition on Interaction Patterns: Introduction to Part 1
  • 1. Thought and action: connecting attributions to behaviours in married couples' interactions
  • 2. Self-evaluation motives in close relationships: a model of global enhancement and specific verification
  • 3. Competition in romantic relationships: do partners build niches?
  • 4. Cognition and communication during marital conflict: how alcohol affects subjective coding of interaction in aggressive and non-aggressive couples
  • Part II. Understanding the Importance of Positive Interaction: Introduction to Part 2
  • 5. Observational 'windows' to intimacy processes in marriage
  • 6. Bases for giving benefits in marriage: what is ideal? what is realistic? what really happens?
  • 7. Shared participation in self-expanding activities: positive effects on experienced marital quality
  • Part III. Coping with Disappointment, Criticism and Betrayal: Introduction to Part 3
  • 8. Coping with disappointments in marriage: when partners' standards are unmet
  • 9. On empathic accuracy and husbands' abusiveness: the 'overattribution bias'
  • 10. The war of the roses: an interdependence analysis of betrayal and forgiveness
  • Part IV. Power, Conflict and Violence in Marital Interaction: Introduction to Part 4
  • 11. Demand-withdraw communication during couple conflict: a review and analysis
  • 12. Approaches to the study of power in violent and nonviolent marriages, and in gay male and lesbian cohabiting relationships
  • 13. The communication of couples in violent and nonviolent relationships: temporal associations with own and partners' anxiety/arousal and behavior
  • Part V. Marital Interaction at Important Transition Periods: Introduction to Part 5
  • 14. Adult attachment, the transition to parenthood, and marital well-being
  • 15. Allocation and performance of household tasks: a comparison of new parents and childless couples
  • 16. Caregiving and its influence on marital interactions between older spouses
  • Part VI. Interventions for Strengthening Relationships: Introduction to Part 6
  • 17. Risk factors, risk processes, and the longitudinal course of newlywed marriage
  • Does working at a relationship work? relationship self-regulation and relationship outcomes
  • Conclusions