Book contents
- Health and Illness in Close Relationships
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Health and Illness in Close Relationships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Unique Context of Health and Illness in Close Relationships
- 1 Defining Health and Illness
- 2 Close Relationship Processes
- 3 Attributes of the Health and Illness Context for Relationship Processes
- Part II Health and Illness, the Body, and Relational Processes
- Part III Integrated Theory of Health and Illness Trajectories and Relational Processes
- References
- Index
2 - Close Relationship Processes
from Part I - The Unique Context of Health and Illness in Close Relationships
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2019
Book contents
- Health and Illness in Close Relationships
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Health and Illness in Close Relationships
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Unique Context of Health and Illness in Close Relationships
- 1 Defining Health and Illness
- 2 Close Relationship Processes
- 3 Attributes of the Health and Illness Context for Relationship Processes
- Part II Health and Illness, the Body, and Relational Processes
- Part III Integrated Theory of Health and Illness Trajectories and Relational Processes
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 2 presents defining characteristics of close relationship processes, especially as close relationship processes shift foundations for considering health and illness trajectories. I provide an overview of how core principles of relationship science let us understand how relationship processes influence, and are influenced by, health and illness. The foundations of Chapter 2 are developed from an interdisciplinary understanding of the scientific study of relationship processes including empirical and theoretical frameworks to explain relationship initiation, development, maintenance, and dissolution. The foundations of Chapter 2 illustrate how concepts such as relationship commitment, stability, relationship integration, goal pursuit, emotional bonds, and sacrifice translate into the communicative enactment of ongoing relationships. These foundations illustrate how the cornerstones of theoretical and empirical work in close relationships then connect to health and illness trajectories.
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- Health and Illness in Close Relationships , pp. 59 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019