Current and diverse: a perfect match for today’s student In the age of texting, sexting, and swiping right, technology has transformed the way couples create and maintain intimacy. To help students think critically about modern intimacy, the Third Edition synthesizes the latest research on couples and embraces the rich diversity of intimacy across couples and cultures.

Intimate Relationships

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bradbury, Thomas N.

Karney, Benjamin R.

Mental Health

W.W.Norton&Company

A clear, balanced, contemporary look at how relationships work, from leading researchers in the field. As the first text to fully capture the excitement of today's research findings on couples, Intimate Relationships answers fascinating questions: How do relationships work?Why are they so hard sometimes?What are the principles that guide them?How can we use what we know to make them better?

Self-Help

Relationships

Highlighting exciting research and the latest societal trends, Intimate Relationships provides the most engaging and contemporary introduction to the field. Bradbury and Karney’s Intimate Relationships introduces students to the study of intimate relationships while using a critical thinking approach that encourages them to interact with what they read. Foundational topics like theoretical perspectives, cultural influences, gender, and sexuality are balanced with coverage of nontraditional relationships, cohabitation, couples therapies, divorce, and relationships across the lifespan. Current trends that affect students directly, from hooking up to social networking web sites and internet dating also make this the most contemporary text available.

The authors estimate marriage and marital dissolution trends from 1996 to 2005, and the effects of recent deployments on risk of ending a marriage. Marital dissolution rates across services and components are currently similar to those seen in 1996, when the demands on the military were measurably lower. Service members who were deployed had a lower risk of subsequently ending their marriages than those who did not deploy or deployed fewer days.

Families Under Stress: An Assessment of Data, Theory, and Research on Marriage and Divorce in the Military

Business & Money

Crown, John S.

Business Culture

RAND Corporation

The Deployment Life Study was designed to provide a deeper understanding of military family readiness and its sources. This report describes the theoretical model that informed the study design, the content of the baseline assessment, the design and procedures associated with data collection, sampling and recruiting procedures, and the baseline sample of military families.

The Deployment Life Study: Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description

Tanielian, Terri

Chandra, Anita

Meadows, Sarah O.

In 2009, the RAND Corporation launched the Deployment Life Study, a longitudinal study of military families across a deployment cycle. This culminating report reviews the study design and data collection procedures, then presents results from analyses of the data collected from some 2,700 military families, focusing on marital relationships, family environment, psychological and behavioral health, child well-being, and military integration.

The Deployment Life Study: Longitudinal Analysis of Military Families Across the Deployment Cycle

Intimate Relationships is the only text to fully capture the excitement of today's research findings on relationships. Through current research and inclusive real-world examples, Intimate Relationships embraces the rich diversity of intimacy across couples and cultures and presents a portrait of relationships in which every student belongs. To help students think critically about modern intimacy, the 4th edition synthesizes the latest findings from relationship science and invites students to analyze and interpret them. New for this edition, Intimate Relationships is available as a dynamic Norton Illumine Ebook featuring Check Your Understanding questions with rich answer-specific feedback, videos, and activities that support active learning and engagement.

Psychology & Counseling

It has been 20 years since the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts, and there has been ample time for researchers to study the consequences of legalizing marriage for same-sex couples on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals; their children; and the general population. The authors of this report document those consequences, drawing on an evidence review and new analyses that they conducted.

Twenty Years of Legal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in the United States: Evidence Review and New Analyses

Mann, Samuel J.

Zaber, Melanie A.

Sears, Brad

Smith, Molly G.

AlFakhri, Marwa

Coe, Jessie

Ryan, Jamie L.

Gadwah-Meaden, Catria

Mallory, Christy

Garber, Chandra

Parenting & Relationships

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