Interpersonal development / edited by Brett Laursen and Rita Žukauskienė.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

After the 'Prologue', which covers the relationship context of human behaviour and development, the organisation of close relationships, and the desire for interpersonal attachments, this book focuses on parent-child relationships, and friendships and peer relationships.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Series preface
• Introduction
• Part I Prologue
• The relationship context of human behavior and development
• A developmental guide to the organisation of close relationships
• The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation
• Part II Parent-Child Relationships
• A reinterpretation of the direction of effects in studies of socialization
• Attachment as an organizational construct
• Child adaptational development in contexts of interparental conflict over time
• Mutually responsive orientation between mothers and their young children: implications for early socialization
• Parenting style as context: an integrative model
• Reconsidering changes in parent-child conflict across adolescence: a meta-analysis
• Part III Friendships and Peer relationships
• Age and sex differences in perceptions of networks of personal relationships
• Having friends, keeping friends, making friends and being liked by peers in the classroom: predictors of children's early school adjustment?
• Social networks and aggressive behavior: peer support or peer rejection?
• Bullying as a group process: participant roles and their relations to social status within the group
• Homophily, selection and socialization in adolescent friendships
• Rehabilitation of socially withdrawn preschool children through mixed-age and same-age socialization
• Friendship and peer rejection as predictors of adult adjustment
• Part IV Romantic and Spousal Relationships
• Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process
• Sexual strategies theory: an evolutionary perspective on human mating
• The social structure of urban adolescent peer groups
• Testing theories of romantic development from adolescence to young adulthood: evidence of a developmental sequence
• The roles of conflict engagement, escalation, and avoidance in marital interaction: a longitudinal view of 5 types of couples
• Part V Sibling Relationships
• Why are children of the same family so different from one another?
• Sibling relationships in early childhood
• 'All the sheeps are dead. He murdered them': sibling pretense, negotiation, internal state language and relationship quality
• Children's perceptions of the fairness of parental preferential treatment and their socioemotional well-being
• Sibling collusion and problem behavior in early adolescence: toward a process for family mutuality
• Contributions of family relationships and child temperaments to longitudinal variations in sibling relationship quality and sibling relationship styles
• Name Index