Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology: Theory, Research, Assessment, and Therapeutic Interventions

641 Pages·2010·6.96 MB·English

by  Leonard M. Horowitz

HANDBOOK OF
INTERPERSONAL
PSYCHOLOGY
Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology: Theory, Research, Assessment, and Therapeutic Interventions
Edited by Leonard M. Horowitz and Stephen Strack
Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
HANDBOOK OF
INTERPERSONAL
PSYCHOLOGY
Theory, Research, Assessment, and
Therapeutic Interventions
Edited by
Leonard M. Horowitz
and
Stephen Strack
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CONTENTS
Foreword xi 6 TheFive-FactorModel,Five-Factor
LeslieC.Morey Theory,andInterpersonal
Psychology 91
Contributors xiii
PaulT.Costa,Jr.
RobertR.McCrae
1 Introduction 1
StephenStrack
PartII BasicInterpersonalProcesses
LeonardM.Horowitz
andMechanisms 105
7 InterpersonalMotivation 107
PartI TheoreticalPerspectives 15
MartinGrosseHoltforth
2 AnAttachment-TheoryFrameworkfor
AndreaThomas
ConceptualizingInterpersonal
FranzCaspar
Behavior 17
PhillipR.Shaver 8 InterpersonalComplementarity 123
MarioMikulincer PamelaSadler
NicoleEthier
3 RelatednessandSelf-Definitionin
ErikWoody
NormalandDisruptedPersonality
Development 37 9 EmpathicAccuracyand
SidneyJ.Blatt Inaccuracy 143
PatrickLuyten KathrynH.Rollings
4 OriginsandApplicationsofthe RonenCuperman
InterpersonalCircumplex 57 WilliamIckes
MarcA.Fournier
10 PersonPerception,Dispositional
D.S.Moskowitz Inferences,andSocialJudgment 157
DavidC.Zuroff DanielLeising
5 Evolution,LifeHistoryTheory,and PeterBorkenau
Personality 75
11 TheRoleofNonverbal
JeffryA.Simpson CommunicationinInterpersonal
VladasGriskevicius Relations 171
JohnS.Kim RobertGifford
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viii CONTENTS
PartIII PersonalityandInterpersonal 21 InterviewMeasuresofInterpersonal
Interactions 191 FunctioningandQualityofObject
Relations 343
12 TrustasMotivationalGatekeeperin
HenningSchauenburg
AdultRomanticRelationships 193
TilmanGrande
SandraL.Murray
JohnG.Holmes
PartV Psychopathologyand
13 AnAttachment-TheoryPerspective Health 357
onSocialSupportinClose
Relationships 209 22 InterpersonalDiagnosisof
Psychopathology 359
NancyL.Collins
AaronL.Pincus
Ma´ireB.Ford
AidanG.C.Wright
BrookeC.Feeney
23 PersonalityDisorders 383
14 ConceptualizingRelationshipViolence
asaDyadicProcess 233 JohnF.Clarkin
KimBartholomew KennethN.Levy
RebeccaJ.Cobb WilliamD.Ellison
15 DifferentiatingtheDarkTriadWithin 24 InterpersonalProcessandTrauma:An
theInterpersonalCircumplex 249 InteractionalModel 405
DanielN.Jones NicoleR.Nugent
DelroyL.Paulhus AnandaB.Amstadter
KarestanC.Koenen
16 SocialAllergens 269
BrianP.O’Connor 25 DepressiveDisordersand
InterpersonalProcesses 425
17 SocialDomains,Personality,and
ChrisG.Segrin
InterpersonalFunctioning 281
JonathanHill 26 InterpersonalProcessesintheAnxiety
PaulA.Pilkonis Disorders 449
JuliaBear LynnE.Alden
MarciJ.Regambal
PartIV AssessmentofInterpersonal
27 AnInterpersonalPerspectiveonRisk
Characteristics 297
forCoronaryHeartDisease 471
18 CircularReasoningAboutCircular TimothyW.Smith
Assessment 299
JennyM.Cundiff
MichaelB.Gurtman
PartVI InterpersonalTherapeutic
19 CircumplexMeasuresofInterpersonal
Interventions 491
Constructs 313
KennethD.Locke
28 InterpersonalIssuesinTreating
ChildrenandAdolescents 493
20 StructuralAnalysisofSocialBehavior
(SASB):StudyingtheNatureof NatalieM.Costa
Nature 325 KristyE.Benoit
LornaSmithBenjamin ThomasH.Ollendick
CONTENTS ix
29 TheTherapeuticAlliance:Research 32 Time-LimitedDynamic
andTheory 509 Psychotherapy 545
LouisG.Castonguay HannaLevenson
MichaelJ.Constantino
33 GroupTherapies 565
JamesF.Boswell
WilliamE.Piper
DavidR.Kraus
JohnS.Ogrodniczuk
30 InterpersonalInterventionsfor
34 SummaryandConcluding
MaintaininganAlliance 519
Remarks 579
CatherineEubanks-Carter
LeonardM.Horowitz
J.ChristopherMuran
StephenStrack
JeremyD.Safran
JeffreyA.Hayes
AuthorIndex 593
31 InterpersonalPsychotherapy
(IPT) 533
SubjectIndex 627
MeredithGunlicks-Stoessel
MyrnaM.Weissman
FOREWORD
Leslie C. Morey
The disciplines of personality, social, and be responsive to the social environment
clinical psychology have long struggled to throughoutlife.Thesethemeswererefined
identify an emergent paradigm that can and expanded by Harry Stack Sullivan
help consolidate the many and disparate (e.g., 1953a, 1953b), who provided keen
contributions that scholars have made to insightintohowinterpersonalmechanisms
thesefields.DatingbacktoSigmundFreud could help provide meaning even to the
(e.g., 1895, 1916–1917), various expansive most severe forms of psychopathology.
theories have been offered, but these theo- Suchseminalideaswerefurtherdeveloped
ries have typically demonstrated profound by succeeding generations of interpersonal
limitations in their capacity to generate scholars,suchasTimothyLeary(1957),who
specific and testable hypotheses regarding proposedarevolutionarycircumplexmodel
human behavior. This volume represents for mapping interpersonal characteristics
compelling evidence that the interpersonal as well as a means for representing these
tradition in psychology has matured to a elementsatvariouslevelsofawarenessand
point that it represents a viable contender automaticity;andJerryWiggins(e.g.,2003;
toserveassuchaconsolidatingmodel. Wiggins, Trapnell, & Phillips, 1988), who
One of the earliest challenges to Freud’s providedbothastrategyforunderstanding
overarching model of personality came the origins of the salient dimensions of the
from Alfred Adler (e.g., 1951, 2002). For model as well as critical refinements in
Freud, most of the dynamic elements of measuring these dimensions. Many other
personality were intrapsychic; interper- important figures, such as Robert Carson
sonalrelationswereconceivedasfollowing (e.g.,1969),DonaldKiesler(e.g.,1983),and
relatively fixed templates with a limited Maurice Lorr (e.g., 1996), introduced and
number of characteristic outcomes. Adler elaborated principles (such as the prin-
observed that the interpersonal milieu of ciple of complementarity) to understand
thedevelopingpersonreflectedapowerful components of these models as dynamic
and ever-changing source of motivation processes as well as personological styles.
through social comparison, and the adap- Suchgiantsinthefieldprovidedarichand
tations to this milieu resulted in diverse comprehensivefoundation from which the
yet consistent patterns of motivations contemporaryfieldofinterpersonalscience
and behaviors, patterns that continued to couldflourish.
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xii FOREWORD
And flourish it has. The contributor predictionsaboutwhatmightbeneededto
list to this volume is a veritable ‘‘Who’s bringaboutdesiredchange.
Who’’oftheleadingscholarsofthecurrent Doctors Horowitz and Strack are to be
generation of interpersonal theorists and commended for assembling a remarkable
researchers,aswellasofextensionsofinter- group of scholars whose work represents
personal theory into essential areas of per- the cutting edge of interpersonal theory,
sonalityandpsychopathology.Thechapters research, and practice. The broad span of
bear testimony to the enduring impact of ideasandfindingsintegratedheresucceeds
thefoundationalwork,andtheremarkable in collating and organizing a field that is
development,thatthefieldhaswitnessedin growinginexcitingways.Thisbookshould
serveasbothaninspirationandachallenge
recent years. The chapters make clear that
tothenextgenerationofinterpersonalscien-
the interpersonal approach provides both
tists,professionals,andstudentsasthefield
a structure by which key individual differ-
continuestoevolveoverthenextdecades.
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CONTRIBUTORS
LynnE.Alden,PhD SidneyJ.Blatt,PhD
DepartmentofPsychology DepartmentsofPsychiatryandPsychology
UniversityofBritishColumbia YaleUniversity
Vancouver,BC,Canada NewHaven,CT
AnandaB.Amstadter,PhD PeterBorkenau,PhD
NationalCrimeVictimsResearch DepartmentofPsychology
andTreatmentCenter UniversityofHalle-Wittenberg
DepartmentofPsychiatry Halle,Germany
andBehavioralSciences
MedicalUniversityofSouthCarolina JamesF.Boswell,MS
Charleston,SC DepartmentofPsychology
PennsylvaniaStateUniversity
KimBartholomew,PhD UniversityPark,PA
DepartmentofPsychology
SimonFraserUniversity FranzCaspar,PhD
Burnaby,BC,Canada DepartmentofPsychology
UniversityofBern
JuliaBear,PhD Bern,Switzerland
TepperSchoolofBusiness
CarnegieMellonUniversity LouisG.Castonguay,PhD
Pittsburgh,PA DepartmentofPsychology
PennsylvaniaStateUniversity
LornaSmithBenjamin,PhD UniversityPark,PA
DepartmentofPsychology
UniversityofUtah JohnF.Clarkin,PhD
SaltLakeCity,UT WeillMedicalCollegeofCornellUniversity
WhitePlains,NY
KristyE.Benoit,MS
DepartmentofPsychology RebeccaJ.Cobb,PhD
VirginiaPolytechnicInstitute DepartmentofPsychology
andStateUniversity SimonFraserUniversity
Blacksburg,VA Burnaby,BC,Canada
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