Although much has been learned from cross-sectional research on marriage, an
understanding of how marriages develop, succeed, and fail is best achieved with …

Two main theoretical approaches have been put forward to explain individual differences in
life satisfaction: top-down (ie, personological) and bottom-up (ie, situational). The authors …

Theorists have long assumed that people's self-esteem and social relationships influence
each other. However, the empirical evidence has been inconsistent, creating substantial …

What is happiness? Why are some people happier than others? This new edition of The
Psychology of Happiness provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research …

The stability of individual differences is a fundamental issue in personality psychology.
Although accumulating evidence suggests that many psychological attributes are both …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes self-esteem and provides an overview of existing
perspectives on self-esteem. Self-esteem is a sociometer, essentially an internal monitor of …

This intriguing new work provides a careful examination of how judgments of ourselves and
others relate to problems and, in so doing, yields valuable insight into human interactions …

This study examines the association between marital quality and personal well‐being using
meta‐analytic techniques. Effects from 93 studies were analyzed. The average weighted …

The authors proposed that personal feelings of self-esteem foster the level of confidence in a
partner's regard critical for satisfying attachments. Dating and married couples described …

This volume on close relationships in adulthood discusses the central issues in the field and
points the way towards the construction of an integrated body of knowledge about human …