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Relationship Pathways
From Adolescence to Young Adulthood

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October 2011 | 360 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Research on adolescent relationships has rapidly expanded during the past decade. Keeping apace with research advances is a difficult challenge. Harder still is integrating the literature into a coherent whole. This volume is designed to guide the reader through the research on close relationships before, during, and after adolescence. We are fortunate that some of the world's foremost experts on adolescent relationships agreed to summarize what is known in their respective fields of expertise. The volume begins with a section on developmental pathways and processes. This section defines relationships processes and describes individual and contextual factors that influence them. The next section is devoted to family relationships. Separate chapters are devoted to sibling relationships and parent-child relationships during the transition into adolescence and during the transition into young adulthood. The final two sections concern peer relationships.
 
Part 1. Family Relationships
W. Andrew Collins, Jose Causadias, and K. Lee Raby
Chapter 1. Transformations in Close Relationship Networks: Parent-Child Relationships and their Social Extensions
Nancy Galambos and Lauren Kotylak
Chapter 2. Transformations in Parent-Child Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood
Lilly Shanahan, Evelyn Waite, and Timothy Boyd
Chapter 3. Transformation in Sibling Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood
 
Part 2. Friendships and Friend Networks
Chris Hafen, Brett Laursen, and Dawn DeLay
Chapter 4. Transformations in Friend Relationships Across the Transition into Adolescence
Chong Man Chow, Holly Roelse, Duane Buhrmester, and Marion K. Underwood
Chapter 5. Transformations in Friend Relationships Across the Transition into Adulthood
Barry H. Schneider, Matthew Lee, and Ibis Alvarez Valdivia
Chapter 6. Adolescent Friendship Bonds in Cultures of Connectedness
René Veenstra and Jan Kornelis Dijkstra
Chapter 7. Transformations in Adolescent Peer Networks
 
Part 3. Romantic Relationships
Inge Seiffge-Krenke and Shmuel Shulman
Chapter 8. Transformations in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships Across the Transition into Adolescence
Wyndol Furman and Jessica K. Winkles
Chapter 9. Transformations in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships Across the Transition into Adulthood: "Meet Me at the Bleachers. I Mean the Bar"
Stephen T. Russell, Ryan Watson, and Joel A. Muraco
Chapter 10. The Development of Same-Sex Intimate Relationships during Adolescence
 
Part 4. Developmental Pathways and Processes
Kirby Deater-Deckard and Zhe Wang
Chapter 11. Gene-Environment Interplay in Adolescent Relationships
Susan Branje, Loes Keijsers, Muriel van Doorn, and Wim Meeus
Chapter 12. Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Processes in the Development of Adolescent Relationships
Amanda J. Rose, Rhiannon L. Smith, Gary C. Glick, and Rebecca A. Schwartz-Mette
Chapter 13. The Role of Gender in Transformations in Adolescent Relationships

“Close relationships with kin and non-kin are a crucial factor of development in adolescence and young adulthood. Yet, there have been few efforts to integrate research about these relationships across these two developmental periods. This volume contains chapters by well-known scholars in the field, addressing both the dynamics of close relationships and the impact on individual adjustment and behavior. Insights from these authors will help to guide future longitudinal studies of close relationships.”

B. Bradford Brown
University of Wisconsin-Madison

“It is a book that I would recommend to our library and to my graduate students, as well as buying for my own shelf. It is centrally relevant to my own research and those of my graduate students. The editors command the utmost respect among their peers in the scholarly community, and this book will be of the highest caliber in promoting advances in scholarly and applied thinking.”

Anna Beth Doyle
Concordia University

Will reconsider if I get faculty to create a separate course for adolescence. I am in the process of trying to get that done, but it has been postponed.

Sharon Reynolds
Educational Foundations Dept, Texas Christian University
October 30, 2012
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Brett P. Laursen

Brett Laursen is Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Training at Florida Atlantic University. His research focuses on parent-child and peer relationships during childhood and adolescence, and the influence of these relationships on individual social and academic adjustment. Dr. Laursen is a Docent Professor of Social Developmental Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is currently the Methods and Measures Editor at the International Journal of Behavioral Development. Dr. Laursen is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 7, Developmental) and a Fellow and Charter Member of the Association... More About Author

Willard Andrew Collins

W. Andrew Collins is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Child Development and Psychology at the University of Minnesota. A graduate of Stanford University, Dr. Collins conducts research on parent and peer relationships and influences during adolescence and young adulthood. He is principal investigator of the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, in which participants have been followed from birth to age 34. Currently editor of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, he is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He served as... More About Author

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