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.
