The *Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships* is a comprehensive volume edited by Anita L. Vangelisti and Daniel Perlman, covering various aspects of personal relationships across different life stages and contexts. The book is structured into several parts, each focusing on specific themes: 1. **Introduction**: Provides an overview of personal relationships and introduces the book. 2. **Foundations for Studying Relationships**: Discusses the theoretical perspectives and research methods used in studying close relationships. 3. **Development of Relationships**: Explores the evolution of relationships from courtship to marriage and beyond. 4. **Relationships Across the Life Span**: Examines relationships in early childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. 5. **Individual Differences**: Investigates how personality, attachment, and other individual factors influence relationships. 6. **Basic Processes**: Focuses on communication, social cognition, emotion, and physiology in intimate relationships. 7. **Interactive Processes**: Analyzes self-disclosure, social support, conflict, and sexuality in close relationships. 8. **Threats to Relationships**: Discusses issues such as loneliness, stress, deception, jealousy, and violence. 9. **Relational Qualities**: Explores concepts like relationship satisfaction, romantic love, commitment, and intimacy. 10. **Context**: Examines the role of social networks, culture, and technology in personal relationships. 11. **Maintenance and Repair of Relationships**: Provides strategies for maintaining and repairing distressed relationships. 12. **Conclusion**: Offers a theoretical approach to integrating the various aspects of personal relationships. The book includes contributions from leading researchers in the field, making it a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in understanding and researching personal relationships.The *Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships* is a comprehensive volume edited by Anita L. Vangelisti and Daniel Perlman, covering various aspects of personal relationships across different life stages and contexts. The book is structured into several parts, each focusing on specific themes: 1. **Introduction**: Provides an overview of personal relationships and introduces the book. 2. **Foundations for Studying Relationships**: Discusses the theoretical perspectives and research methods used in studying close relationships. 3. **Development of Relationships**: Explores the evolution of relationships from courtship to marriage and beyond. 4. **Relationships Across the Life Span**: Examines relationships in early childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. 5. **Individual Differences**: Investigates how personality, attachment, and other individual factors influence relationships. 6. **Basic Processes**: Focuses on communication, social cognition, emotion, and physiology in intimate relationships. 7. **Interactive Processes**: Analyzes self-disclosure, social support, conflict, and sexuality in close relationships. 8. **Threats to Relationships**: Discusses issues such as loneliness, stress, deception, jealousy, and violence. 9. **Relational Qualities**: Explores concepts like relationship satisfaction, romantic love, commitment, and intimacy. 10. **Context**: Examines the role of social networks, culture, and technology in personal relationships. 11. **Maintenance and Repair of Relationships**: Provides strategies for maintaining and repairing distressed relationships. 12. **Conclusion**: Offers a theoretical approach to integrating the various aspects of personal relationships. The book includes contributions from leading researchers in the field, making it a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in understanding and researching personal relationships.