18. Breakups before Marriage: The End of 103 Affairs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. Part I: Infancy
6. Mastery and Competencies
7. 1. Competent Newborns 3
8. 2. Piaget’s Observations as a Source of Hypotheses Concerning Motivation 13
9. Identity and the Self
10. 3. Mirror-Image Stimulation and Self-Recognition in Infancy 25
11. 4. Characteristics of the Individual Child’s Behavioral Responses to the Environment 42
12. Relations with Others
13. 5. Attachment, Exploration, and Separation: Illustrated by the Behavior of One-Year-Olds in a Strange Situation 57
14. 6. Growth of Social Play with Peers during the Second Year of Life 72
15. Part II: Childhood
16. Mastery and Competencies
17. 7. The Role of Play in Cognitive Development 83
18. 8. A Structural-Developmental Analysis of Levels of Role-taking in Middle Childhood 96
19. Identity and the Self
20. 9. The Process of Learning Parental and Sex-Role Identification 107
21. 10. Development of a Sense of Self-Identity in Children 118
22. Relations with Others
23. 11. Peer Interaction and the Behavioral Development of the Individual Child 135
24. 12. The Aftermath of Divorce 148
25. Part III: Adolescence
26. Mastery and Competencies
27. 13. Understanding the Young Adolescent 167
28. 14. Intrapsychic versus Cultural Explanations of the “Fear of Success” Motive 177
29. Identity and the Self
30. 15. The Problem of Ego Identity 189
31. 16. Disturbance in the Self- Image at Adolescence 199
32. Relations with Others
33. 17. Changes in Family Relations at Puberty 211
34. 18. Breakups before Marriage: The End of 103 Affairs 224
35. Part IV: Adulthood
36. Mastery and Competencies
37. 19. Transition to Parenthood 243
38. 20. Work and Its Meaning 255
39. Identity and the Self
40. 21. The Subjective Experience of Middle Age 273
41. 22. The Midlife Transition: A Period in Adult Psychosocial Development 284
42. Relations with Others
43. 23. Marital Satisfaction over the Family Life Cycle 301
44. 24. Primary Friends and Kin: A Study of the Associations of Middle-Class Couples 311
45. Part V: Late Adulthood
46. Mastery and Competencies
47. 25. The Role of Grandparenthood 325
48. 26. Adjustment to Loss of Job at Retirement 331
49. Identity and the Self
50. 27. Personality and Patterns of Aging 341
51. 28. The Life Review: An Interpretation of Reminiscence in the Aged 349
52. Late Adulthood
53. Relations with Others
54. 29. Interaction and Adaptation: Intimacy as a Critical Variable 359
55. 30. The Meaning of Friendship in Widowhood 368