Growing together: personal relationships across the lifespan

Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Coming together: a perspective on relationships across the life span Karen L. Fingerman and Frieder R. Lang 2. Relationships as outcomes and contexts Toni C. Antonucci, Elizabeth S. Langfahl, and Hiroko Akiyama 3. Child-parent relationships Peter Noack and Heike M. Buhl 4. A dynamic ecological systems perspective on emotion regulation development within the sibling relationship context Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford and Brenda L. Volling 5. Romantic and marital relationships Hans-Werner Bierhoff and Martina Schmohr 6. Close relationships across the life span: toward a theory of relationship types Keiko Takahashi 7. Friendship across the life span: reciprocity in individual and relationship development Rosemary Bliezner and Karen A. Roberto 8. The consequential stranger: peripheral relationships across the life span Karen L. Fingerman 9. Stress in social relationships: coping and adaptation across the life span Karen Rook, Dara Sorkin and Laura Zettel 10. Social support and physical health across the life span: socioemotional influences Susan Turk Charles and Shahrzad Mavandadi 11. Social cognition and social relationships Fredda Blanchard-Fields and Carolyn Cooper 12. Dyadic fits and transactions in personality and relationships Franz J. Neyer 13. Relational competence across the life span Robert O. Hansson, Eric L. Daleiden and Bert Hayslip, Jr 14. Social motivation across the lifespan: a goal-resource-congruence model of social relationships Frieder R. Lang 15. A lifetime of relationships mediated by technology Rebecca G. Adams and Michelle L. Stevenson Indexes.