part, I Prologue -- chapter 1 The Relationship Context of Human Behavior and Development / chapter 2 A Developmental Guide to the Organisation of Close Relationships / chapter 3 The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental Human Motivation / part, II Parent-Child Relationships -- chapter 4 A Reinterpretation of the Direction of Effects in Studies of Socialization / chapter 5 Attachment as an Organizational Construct / chapter 6 Child Adaptational Development in Contexts of Interparental Conflict Over Time / chapter 7 Mutually Responsive Orientation between Mothers and Their Young Children: Implications for Early Socialization / chapter 8 Parenting Style as Context: An Integrative Model / chapter 9 Reconsidering Changes in Parent-Child Conflict across Adolescence: A Meta-Analysis / part, III Friendships and Peer Relationships -- chapter 10 Age and Sex Differences in Perceptions of Networks of Personal Relationships / chapter 11 Having Friends, Keeping Friends, Making Friends, and Being Liked by Peers in the Classroom: Predictors of Children's Early School Adjustment? / chapter 12 Social Networks and Aggressive Behavior: Peer Support or Peer Rejection? / chapter 13 Bullying as a Group Process: Participant Roles and Their Relations to Social Status Within the Group / chapter 14 Homophily, Selection, and Socialization in Adolescent Friendships 1 / chapter 15 Rehabilitation of Socially Withdrawn Preschool Children through Mixed-Age and Same-Age Socialization / chapter 16 Preadolescent Friendship and Peer Rejection as Predictors of Adult Adjustment / part, IV Romantic and Spousal Relationships -- chapter 17 Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process / chapter 18 Sexual Strategies Theory: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Mating / chapter 19 The Social Structure of Urban Adolescent Peer Groups / chapter 20 Testing theories of romantic development from adolescence to young adulthood: Evidence of a developmental sequence / chapter 21 The Roles of Conflict Engagement, Escalation, and Avoidance in Marital Interaction: A Longitudinal View of Five Types of Couples / part, V Sibling Relationships -- chapter 22 Why are children in the same family so different from one another? / chapter 23 Sibling Relationships in Early Childhood / chapter 24 "All the sheeps are dead. He murdered them": Sibling Pretense, Negotiation, Internal State Language, and Relationship Quality / chapter 25 Children's Perceptions of the Fairness of Parental Preferential Treatment and Their Socioemotional Well-Being / chapter 26 Sibling Collusion and Problem Behavior in Early Adolescence: Toward a Process Model for Family Mutuality / chapter 27 Contributions of Family Relationships and Child Temperaments to Longitudinal Variations in Sibling Relationship Quality and Sibling Relationship Styles