Relationship Maintenance: Theory, Process, and Context

Part I. Introduction: 1. Maintaining the literature on relationship maintenance Brian G. Ogolsky and J. Kale Monk Part II. Theories of Relationship Maintenance: 2. Interdependence perspectives on relationship maintenance Laura E. VanderDrift and Christopher Agnew 3. An evolutionary, life history theory perspective on relationship maintenance Ethan S. Young and Jeffry A. Simpson 4. Relationship maintenance from an attachment perspective Juwon Lee, Gery C. Karantzas, Omri Gillath and R. Chris Fraley 5. Uncertainty perspectives on relationship maintenance Jennifer A. Theiss 6. The self-expansion model and relationship maintenance Xiaomeng Xu, Gary Lewandowski, Jr and Arthur Aron Part III. Processes of Relationship Maintenance: 7. Communication and relationship maintenance Laura Stafford 8. Attributions, forgiveness, and gratitude as relationship maintenance processes James K. McNulty and Alexander Dugas 9. Social networks and relationship maintenance Susan Sprecher, Diane Felmlee, Jeffrey E. Stokes and Brandon McDaniel 10. Dyadic coping as relationship maintenance Ashley K. Randall and Shelby Messerschmitt-Coen 11. Conflict management and problem solving as relationship maintenance Karena Leo, Feea R. Leifker, Donald H. Baucom and Brian R. W. Baucom 12. Sex as relationship maintenance Emily A. Impett, Amy Muise and Natalie O. Rosen 13. Accuracy and bias in relationship maintenance Edward P. Lemay, Jr and Nadya Teneva Part IV. The Social Context of Relationship Maintenance: 14. Gender and race perspectives on relationship maintenance Katherine Fiori and Amy Rauer 15. Relationship maintenance across cultural groups Stanley O. Gaines, Jr and Nelli Ferenczi 16. Relationship maintenance in the age of technology John P. Caughlin and Ningxin Wang 17. Relationship maintenance across the life course Amy Rauer and Christine Proulx 18. Relationship maintenance in couple therapy and relationship education Amber Vennum, Jeremy Kanter and Joyce Baptist Part V. Conclusion: 19. Relationship maintenance reprise and reflections: past, present and future Daniel Perlman Index.