Book contents
- Intimate Relationships Across Cultures
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Intimate Relationships Across Cultures
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Spotlights
- Collaborators
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Was This Book Written?
- 1 How Do We Know What Matters in Intimate Relationships?
- 2 Why Do People Seek Intimate Relationships?
- 3 How Are Intimate Partners Selected?
- 4 What Is Love and How Is Intimacy Expressed?
- 5 How Do Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors Matter?
- 6 What Are the Dynamics of Exchange and Power?
- 7 How Do Couples Cope with Conflict?
- 8 How Do External Factors Matter in Intimate Relationships?
- 9 How Do Intimate Relationships Relate to Well-Being?
- 10 How Do the Predictions Combine in Comprehensive Models?
- 11 How Much Do the Levels of Factors Vary?
- 12 What Are the Implications of the Study?
- 13 How Might the Findings Apply to Other Social Relationships?
- Epilogue: What Future Research Is Needed?
- Glossary of Statistical Terms
- Boston Couples Study Publications
- References
- Index
Introduction: Why Was This Book Written?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2019
- Intimate Relationships Across Cultures
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Intimate Relationships Across Cultures
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Spotlights
- Collaborators
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Was This Book Written?
- 1 How Do We Know What Matters in Intimate Relationships?
- 2 Why Do People Seek Intimate Relationships?
- 3 How Are Intimate Partners Selected?
- 4 What Is Love and How Is Intimacy Expressed?
- 5 How Do Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors Matter?
- 6 What Are the Dynamics of Exchange and Power?
- 7 How Do Couples Cope with Conflict?
- 8 How Do External Factors Matter in Intimate Relationships?
- 9 How Do Intimate Relationships Relate to Well-Being?
- 10 How Do the Predictions Combine in Comprehensive Models?
- 11 How Much Do the Levels of Factors Vary?
- 12 What Are the Implications of the Study?
- 13 How Might the Findings Apply to Other Social Relationships?
- Epilogue: What Future Research Is Needed?
- Glossary of Statistical Terms
- Boston Couples Study Publications
- References
- Index
Summary
This book reports the findings of a cross-cultural study to update and extend the groundbreaking Boston Couples Study and other research on intimate relationships. It develops comprehensive models of relationship dynamics and makes explicit comparisons across relationship types and cultural regions, which are missing in the research literature. It is written in a style appropriate for college students, researchers, therapists, and others.
In 1972, Zick Rubin, Anne Peplau, and I began a pioneering longitudinal study of college-age dating couples, known as the Boston Couples Study. This research has been cited in numerous textbooks and journal articles. Our first of many articles (Hill, Rubin, & Peplau, 1976) has been cited more 750 times (Google Scholar, 2018).
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- Intimate Relationships across CulturesA Comparative Study, pp. 1 - 3Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019