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A study of communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, this text emphasizes an intergenerational perspective. Layering; to integrate and juxtapose alternative experiences of the social world allows the reader to be situated in the world of female family members as they experience and describe their communication

This work explores "inappropriate relationships" across a range of definitions and circumstances. Scholars and researchers in relationship study, interpersonal communication, and sociology should find this work a useful resource for further study and research.

Serves as an initial attempt to understand the nature of difficulty in relationships and to place it in a broad context of human experience. This book extends the discussion of the "dark side" of relationships, emphasizing the whole process of relating.

Julie Yingling considers communication and relationships through the lens of human development. Beginning with infancy and moving through adolescence to adulthood, the chapters examine communication and cognition in the various stages of human development.

This study reviews the empirical literature on sexuality before marriage, highlighting the unique, sexually-related experiences of individuals from childhood to young adulthood. The author uses symbolic interaction as a unifying theory of premarital sexuality.

Written for researchers, practitioners, parents and teachers, amongst others, this text describes the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It informs the reader about how drugs, adolescents and the social world affect an adolescent's relationship with his/her parents.

This volume examines maintaining relationships through communications through relational, contextual and cultural variations. Topics covered include: romantic relationships; long-distance relationships; relational maintenance in organizational settings; and culturally-mixed couples.

This book focuses on safe sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationships. It paints a clear picture of the risk that exists for these less-studied, more general populations, so individuals may better personalize the risk and engage in more preventative measures

Studies women and men as friends using a developmental perspective. The text examines cross-sex friendships from early childhood through to old age, then summarizes the findings and offers recommendations on how friendship between males and females can be encouraged throughout the life span.

Serves as an initial attempt to understand the nature of difficulty in relationships and to place it in a broad context of human experience. This book extends the discussion of the "dark side" of relationships, emphasizing the whole process of relating.

Focuses on nonverbal messages and their role in close relationships - friends, family, and romantic partners. This book takes a functional perspective in its examination of how nonverbal messages work to signal affection, romantic interest, sexual attraction, dominance, and other roles.

This text brings together a full treatment of the relational communication perspective on the study of relationships. This perspective takes to heart the formative nature of communication by focusing on the codefined patterns of interaction by which members jointly create their relationship.

This text explores how memory, communication and social cognition function in the development of romantic relationships, and describes the stages of their development. Topics discussed include emotion and cognition about relationships and memory structures for developing relationships.

This volume examines the role of time in relationships with a focus on the transpersonal dimension of intimacy and the temporal aspects of relationships. The chapters address issues such as the forces of time; the process of intimacy; and time, addiction and intimacy.

The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. This book offers a way to consider basic notions about how relationships form, such as how particular people meet, and how relationships are started. It is aimed at students and researchers in a variety of disciplines.

'The State of Affairs' brings together contributions on the study of sexual affairs in committed personal relationships. Based on a range of survey data, the chapters discuss the impacts of affairs on individuals, partners and other members of the family unit.

This work explores "inappropriate relationships" across a range of definitions and circumstances. Scholars and researchers in relationship study, interpersonal communication, and sociology should find this work a useful resource for further study and research.

The relational communication approach in a sole and unique book: theory, procedures, main research lines and contexts, and future directions described in a coodinated and comprehensive way.

The book explores the paradox of why affairs continue to be condemned as immoral at a time when the incidence of affairs continues to rise, and they have become the basic ingredients of soap operas, novels and the media.