Introduction: The Movement Toward Studying the Maintenance and Enhancement of Close Romantic Relationships

Amy Wenzel

John Harvey

I THEORETICAL APPROACHES

Viewing Close Romantic Relationships as Communal Relationships: Implications for Maintenance and Enhancement

Judson Mills

Margaret S. Clark

Emphatic Accuracy and Preemptive Relationship Maintenance

Jeffry A. Simpson

William Ickes

Minda Orina

Shared Self-Expanding Activities as a Means of Maintaining and Enhancing Close Romantic Relationships

Arthur Aron

Christina C. Norman

Elaine N. Aron

The Paradox of the Sincere Chameleon: Strategic Self-Verification in Close Relationships

Jennifer K. Bosson

William B. Swann, Jr.

Commitment and Relationship Maintenance Mechanisms

Caryl E. Rusbult

Nils Olsen

Jody L. Davis

Peggy A. Hannon

Improvising Commitment in Close Relationships: A Relational Dialectics Perspective

Erin M. Sahlstein

Leslie A. Baxter

Equity in the Preservation of Personal Relationships

Daniel J. Canary

Laura Stafford

Maintaining and Enhancing a Relationship by Attending to It

Linda K. Acitelli

Appetitive and Aversive Social Interaction

Shelly L. Gable

Harry T. Reis

A Social-Cognitive Perspective on the Maintenance and Deterioration of Relationship Satisfaction

Benjamin R. Karney

James K. McNulty

Nancy E. Frye

Evolution and Evolutionary Psychology: Their Application to Close Relationships

Kevin D. Wu

II APPLIED ISSUES

Establishing and Maintaining Satisfaction in Multicultural Relationships

Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.

Kelly A. Brennan

Relationship Maintenance and Enhancement in Remarried Families

Marilyn Coleman

Lawrence Ganong

Shannon Weaver

Ongoing Aspects of Relationships and Health Outcomes: Social Support, Social Control, Companionship, and Relationship Meaning

Barbara R. Sarason

Irwin G. Sarason

Depression in Marriage

Heather A. O'Mahen

Steven R. H. Beach

Sammy F. Banawan

Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy

Janice Jones

Brian D. Doss

Andrew Christensen

How Well Do You Mind Your Relationship? A Preliminary Scale to Test the Minding Theory of Relating

Julia Omarzu

Joanne Whalen

John H. Harvey

Maintaining and Enhancing Relationships: Concluding Commentary

Daniel Perlman

Author Index

Subject Index