Positive Approaches to Optimal Relationship Development

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Edited by C. Raymond Knee, University of Houston, Harry T. Reis, University of Rochester, New York

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2016
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781316212653
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316212653

Subjects:: Social Psychology, Sociology: General Interest, Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
Series:: Advances in Personal Relationships

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How can we get the most out of our close relationships? Research in the area of personal relationships continues to grow, but most prior work has emphasized how to overcome negative aspects. This volume demonstrates that a good relationship is more than simply the absence of a bad relationship, and that establishing and maintaining optimal relationships entails enacting a set of processes that are distinct from merely avoiding negative or harmful behaviors. Drawing on recent relationship science to explore issues such as intimacy, attachment, passion, sacrifice, and compassionate goals, the essays in this volume emphasize the positive features that allow relationships to flourish. In doing so, they integrate several theoretical perspectives, concepts, and mechanisms that produce optimal relationships. The volume also includes a section on intensive and abbreviated interventions that have been empirically validated to be effective in promoting the positive features of close relationships.

'The originality and scholarship of the book are top-notch, and the contributor list includes a who's who of top researchers in the field.’

Timothy J. Loving - University of Texas, Austin

'This is a refreshing volume with a focus on theories, concepts, mechanisms, empirical research, and interventions related to developing and maintaining optimal relationships. The editors and chapter authors, all experts in the relationship field, have provided a collection of chapters on the flourishment of relationships that are a must read for scholars and students of close relationships.’

Susan Sprecher - Distinguished Professor, Illinois State University

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Positive Approaches to Optimal Relationship Development
pp i-i

Advances in Personal Relationships - Series page
pp ii-ii

Positive Approaches to Optimal Relationship Development - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Figures and tables
pp vii-vii

Contributors
pp viii-x

Preface
pp xi-xiv

Part I - Major theoretical perspectives
pp 1-100

1 - Promoting intimacy: strategies suggested by the appetitive side
pp 3-29

2 - Optimal relationships as mutual fulfillment of self-determination theory’s basic psychological needs
pp 30-55

3 - Attachment theory as a framework for the promotion of optimal relationships
pp 56-78

4 - The self-expansion model and optimal relationship development
pp 79-100

Part II - Concepts and mechanisms
pp 101-278

5 - Capitalization: the good news about close relationships
pp 103-123

6 - The positive implications of sex for relationships
pp 124-147

7 - The power of diagnostic situations: how support and conflict can foster growth and security
pp 148-170

8 - The role of passion in optimal relationships
pp 171-196

9 - The dyadic nature of ideal and partner perceptions in romantic relationships
pp 197-210

10 - For it is in giving that we receive: the benefits of sacrifice in relationships
pp 211-231

11 - For better or worse: compassionate goals create good relationships in good times and bad
pp 232-256

12 - Synchrony in positive social relationships
pp 257-278

Part III - Effective interventions
pp 279-349

13 - Effective interventions for optimal relationships
pp 281-303

14 - Forgiveness interventions for optimal close relationships: problems and prospects
pp 304-325

15 - Brief interventions to strengthen relationships and prevent dissolution
pp 326-349

Index
pp 350-351

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