Transparency notice: ISSPR.org is an independent editorial project, with no organizational link to the original ISSPR (dissolved since 2002). This bibliography reconstructs the archived table of contents of the journal Personal Relationships, consulted through the Wayback Machine (capture of January 18, 2001). See also our page History of the ISSPR.

This table of contents covers the first three volumes of the journal (1994-1996) and brings together authors who remain among the most cited references in research on interpersonal relationships — among them Harry T. Reis, Elaine Hatfield, Robert J. Sternberg, Ellen Berscheid, Patricia Noller, Kim Bartholomew and Robert A. Hinde. Several of these works are cited, directly or through the literature they inspired, in our guides on love styles, attachment theory and relationship satisfaction.

To find the full text of an article, we recommend searching for the exact title on Google Scholar or in university databases (JSTOR, Wiley Online Library, which host the history of the journal Personal Relationships, now published under the aegis of another academic association).

Volume 1, Issue 1 — March 1994

  • Patricia Noller — Editorial
  • Constantine Sedikides, Mary Beth Oliver, W. Keith Campbell — Perceived benefits and costs of romantic relationships for women and men: Implications for exchange theory
  • Elaine Scharfe, Kim Bartholomew — Reliability and stability of adult attachment patterns
  • John B. Nezlek, Constance J. Pilkington — Perceptions of risk in intimacy and social participation
  • Paula R. Pietromonaco, Katherine B. Carnelley — Gender and working models of attachment: Consequences for perceptions of self and romantic relationships
  • Judith Feeney, Candida Peterson, Patricia Noller — Equity and marital satisfaction over the family life cycle

Volume 1, Issue 2 — June 1994

  • Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Anita L. Vangelisti, Susan M. Firman — Perceptions of marital interaction and change during pregnancy: A typological approach
  • Lee A. Kirkpatrick, Cindy Hazan — Attachment styles and close relationships: A four-year prospective study
  • Denise Haunani Cloven, Michael E. Roloff — A developmental model of decisions to withhold relational irritations in romantic relationships
  • Joseph P. Forgas, George Levenger, Stephanie J. Moylan — Feeling good and feeling close: affective influences on the perception of intimate relationships
  • Harry T. Reis, Peter Franks — The role of intimacy and social support in health outcomes: Two processes or one?

Volume 1, Issue 3 — September 1994

  • Susan Sprecher — Two sides to the breakup of dating relationships
  • Ted L. Huston, Amy F. Chorost — Behavioral buffers on the effect of negativity on marital satisfaction: A longitudinal study
  • Vicki S. Helgeson — The effects of self-beliefs and relationship beliefs on adjustment to a relationship stressor
  • Daniel J. Flannery, Raymond Montemayor, Mary B. Eberly — The influence of parent negative emotional expression on adolescents' perceptions of their relationships with their parents
  • Nancy Kropp Grote, Irene Hanson Frieze — The measurement of Friendship-based Love in intimate relationships
  • (Brief report) Lorinda Camparo, Andrew Christensen, Duane Buhrmester, Stephen Hinshaw — System functioning in families with ADHD and non-ADHD sons

Volume 1, Issue 4 — December 1994

  • Beverley Fehr — Prototype-based assessment of laypeople's views of love
  • Judith A. Feeney — Attachment style, communication patterns, and satisfaction across the life cycle of marriage
  • Susan Sprecher, Arthur Aron, Elaine Hatfield, Anthony Cortese, Elena Potapova, Anna Levitskaya — Love: American style, Russian style, and Japanese style
  • Brant R. Burleson — Friendship and similarities in social-cognitive and communication abilities: Social skill bases of interpersonal attraction in childhood
  • (Brief reports) R. William Doherty, Elaine Hatfield, Kari Thompson, Patricia Choo — Cultural and ethnic influences on love and attachment
  • (Brief reports) W. Keith Campbell, Constantine Sedikides, Jennifer Bosson — Romantic involvement, self-discrepancy, and psychological well being: A preliminary investigation

Volume 2, Issue 1 — March 1995

  • (Invited paper) Robert A. Hinde — A suggested structure for a science of relationships

Volume 2 — 1995 (later issues, archived excerpts)

  • Carmel Parker White, David W. Wright, Howard L. Barnes — Correlates of parent-child communication about specific sexual topics: A study of rural parents with school-aged children
  • Pamela C. Regan, Ellen Berscheid — Gender differences in beliefs about the causes of male and female sexual desire
  • Laura Bettor, Susan S. Hendrick, Clyde Hendrick — Gender and sexual standards in dating relationships
  • Michelle R. Hebl, Deborah A. Kashy — Sociosexuality and everyday social interaction

Volume 3, Issue 1 — March 1996 — Special Issue: Understanding Love

  • Karen K. Dion, Kenneth L. Dion (guest editors) — Introduction: Toward understanding love
  • Karen K. Dion, Kenneth L. Dion — Cultural perspectives on romantic love
  • Ellen Berscheid, Sarah A. Meyers — A social categorical approach to a question about love
  • Elaine N. Aron, Arthur Aron — Love and expansion of the self: The state of the model
  • Robert J. Sternberg — Love stories
  • Phillip R. Shaver, Hillary J. Morgan, Shelley Wu — Is love a 'basic' emotion?
  • Patricia Noller — What is this thing called love? Defining the love that supports marriage and family

Volume 3, Issue 2 — June 1996

  • Patricia A. Frazier, Anne L. Byer, Ann R. Fischer, Deborah M. Wright, Kurt A. DeBord — Adult attachment style and partner choice: Correlational and experimental findings
  • Meredith L. Bombar, Lawrence W. Littig Jr. — Babytalk as a communication of intimate attachment: An initial study in adult romances and friendships
  • Kim Gale Dolgin — Parents' disclosure of their own concerns to their adolescent children
  • Sarah L. Clark, Mary Ann Parris Stephens — Stroke patients' well-being as a function of caregiving spouses' helpful and unhelpful actions
  • Jennifer A. Connolly, Anne M. Johnson — Adolescents' romantic relationships and the structure and quality of their close interpersonal ties
  • Suzanne E. Bartle — Family of origin and interpersonal contributions to the interdependence of dating partners' trust

Volume 3, Issue 3 — September 1996

  • Nancy K. Grote, Irene H. Frieze, Clement A. Stone — Children, traditionalism in the division of family work, and marital satisfaction: 'What's love got to do with it?'
  • Shirley McGuire, Susan M. McHale, Kimberley Updegraff — Children's perceptions of the sibling relationship in middle childhood: Connections within and between family relationships
  • Judi Beinstein Miller — Social flexibility and anxious attachment
  • Katherine B. Carnelley, Paula R. Pietromonaco, Kenneth Jaffe — Attachment, caregiving, and relationship functioning in couples: Effects of self and partner
  • Marilyn Mendolia, Steven R. H. Beach, Abraham Tesser — The relationship between marital interaction behaviors and affective reactions to one's own and one's spouse's self-evaluation needs
  • Susan D. Boon, Dale W. Griffin — The construction of risk in relationships: The role of framing in decisions about intimate relationships
  • Warren B. Miller, David J. Pasta — Couple disagreement: Effects on the formation and implementation of fertility decisions

Source

Table of contents reconstructed from the Wayback Machine capture of January 18, 2001 of the page isspr.org/prindx.html, consulted and verified on July 24, 2026.