Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Prologue: The relationship context of human behavior and development, Henry T. Reis, W.Andrew Collins and Ellen Berscheid; A developmental guide to the organisation of close relationships, Brett Laursen and William M. Bukowski; The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation, Roy F. Baumeister, Mark R. Leary. Part II Parent-Child Relationships: A reinterpretation of the direction of effects in studies of socialization, Richard Q. Bell; Attachment as an organizational construct, L.Alan Stroufe and Everett Waters; Child adaptational development in contexts of interparental conflict over time, Patrick T. Davies, Melissa.L. Sturge-Apple, Marcia A. Winter, E.Mark Cummings and Deirdre Farrell; Mutually responsive orientation between mothers and their young children: implications for early socialization, Grazyna Kochanska; Parenting style as context: an integrative model, Nancy Darling and Laurence Steinberg; Reconsidering changes in parent-child conflict across adolescence: a meta-analysis, Brett Laursen, Katherine C. Coy and W.Andrew Collins. Part III Friendships and Peer relationships: Age and sex differences in perceptions of networks of personal relationships, Wyndol Furman and Duane Buhrmester; Having friends, keeping friends, making friends and being liked by peers in the classroom: predictors of children's early school adjustment?, Gary W. Ladd; Social networks and aggressive behavior: peer support or peer rejection?, Robert B. Cairns, Beverley D. Cairns, Holly J. Neckerman, Scott D. Jest and Jean-Louis Gari ; Bullying as a group process: participant roles and their relations to social status within the group, Christina Salmivalli, Kirsti Lagerspetz, Kaj Björkqvist, Karin Österman and Ari Kaukiainen; Homophily, selection and socialization in adolescent friendships, Denise B. Kandel; Rehabilitation of socially withdrawn preschool children through mixed-age and same-age soc
