Sunday, January 30, 2011

Book Announcement: Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood

The new book Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood (Cambridge University Press) is now available. It is an edited volume, overseen by Frank Fincham and Ming Cui of Florida State University, with each chapter written by different authors.

I contributed one of the opening chapters, providing background information on Emerging Adulthood and its possible links to romantic-relationship development.

Other chapters cover a variety of topics, including relationship initiation, family-of-origin influences, sexuality, cohabitation, and relationship education. There are also chapters on methodological and statistical approaches to studying close relationships, such as the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.