Kennon M. Sheldon, Todd B. Kashdan, and Michael F. Steger

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780195373585

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373585.001.0001

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ContentsFRONT MATTER

Title Pages
Dedication
Preface
Contributors
Designing Positive Psychology
I Introductory Perspectives
- 1 Positive Psychology
- 2 Challenges, Pitfalls, and Aspirations for Positive Psychology
II Biological Perspectives
- 3 Positive Psychophysiology
- 4 Positive Psychological States and Biological Processes
- 5 The Primary Process Affects in Human Development, Happiness, and Thriving
III Emotional Perspectives
- 6 Beyond Pleasure and Pain? Emotion Regulation and Positive Psychology
- 7 The Positive Psychology of Positive Emotions
- 8 The Future of Emotions Research within Positive Psychology
IV Social-Cognitive Perspectives
- 9 The Role of Hypo-egoic Self-Processes in Optimal Functioning and Subjective Well-Being
- 10 Experiential Processing and the Integration of Bright and Dark Sides of the Human Psyche
- 11 A Task-Focused Mind Is a Happy and Productive Mind
- 12 Finding Positive Value in Human Consciousness
V Introductory Perspectives
- 13 Personality Traits and the Potential of Positive Psychology
- 14 Character and Personality
- 15 Personality Science and the Northern Tilt
- 16 Why Gratitude Enhances Well-Being
VI Relationship Perspectives
- 17 The Positive Side of Close Relationships
- 18 Positive Relationship Science
- 19 Coaching and Positive Psychology
VII Clinical Perspectives
- 20 The Dog Woman, Addie Bundren, and the Ninth Circle of Hell
- 21 Meaning and Growth within Positive Psychology
- 22 Mindfulness and Positive Psychological Functioning
VIII Organizational Perspectives
- 23 Positive Psychological Capital in the Workplace
- 24 Organizational Applications of Positive Psychology
IX Societal Perspectives
- 25 Place and Well-Being
- 26 Greater Happiness for a Greater Number
- 27 Positive Psychology as a Force for Social Change
X Summary Perspectives
- 28 What’s Positive about Positive Psychology?
- 29 To Celebrate Positive Psychology and Extend Its Horizons
- 30 Are We There Yet?
- 31 Positive Psychology in Historical and Philosophical Perspective
END MATTER
Appendix
Index

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The Positive Side of Close Relationships

Chapter:: (p. 265 ) 17 The Positive Side of Close Relationships
Source:: Designing Positive Psychology
Author(s):: Shelly L. Gable
Courtney L. Gosnell
Publisher:: Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373585.003.0017

Research has unequivocally shown that close relationships are strongly linked to health and well-being. This chapter reviews work that has focused on processes that promote high-quality relationships and the role that these processes play in health and well-being. It then discusses areas that are ripe for future research on positive processes in close relationships that are likely to shed light on important links to health and well-being.

Keywords: close relationships, personal relationships, health, well-being

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