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Maintaining long-distance and cross-residential relationships

Long-distance relationships have become a popular area of study, although limited work has been published. In response to this state of scholarship, Laura Stafford summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types, relating them to theory
eBook, English, 2005
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, N.J., 2005
1 online resource (ix, 154 pages)
9781410611512, 9780805851649, 9780805851656, 9781135607975, 9781282322783, 9786612322785, 1410611515, 080585164X, 0805851658, 1135607974, 1282322788, 6612322780
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Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Rationale, Definitions, and Assumptions; 3 Theoretical Orientations; 4 Long-Distance Dating Relationships; 5 Adult Romantic Relationships; 6 Young Children and Parents; 7 Across Generations: Adult Children, Parents, and Grandparents; 8 Peer Relationships: Siblings and Friends; 9 Computer-Mediated LDRs; 10 Propositions, Implications, Limitations, and Lacunae; 11 Toward an Expanded Vision of Relational Maintenance; Epilogue; References; Author Index; Subject Index
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