Adaptation to LifeHarvard University Press, 1998 M08 11 - 416 páginas Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The originators of the program, which came to be known as the Grant Study, felt that medical research was too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and their intent was to chart the ways in which a group of promising individuals coped with their lives over the course of many years. |
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... findings of the book generalize to more diverse groups? For example, one woman wrote to me: “I am so full of feelings and thoughts I feel compelled to write you a letter. Although I found that in essence I agreed with the conclusions ...
... findings have been published in Wisdom of the Ego, Harvard University Press.) Over the years, I have also been gratified by the fact that Adaptation to Life, even when it provoked the reader, also brought real pleasure. Thus, the same ...
... findings will be discussed in Chapter 13.) In brief, both men had parents who, when compared to those of the other men in the Study, seemed ill-equipped to provide their children with either a sense of basic trust in the universe or a ...
... findings from the study suggest that neither the crude encephalography nor the sophisticated Somatotyping of that era were particularly illuminating in the study of these subjects' personalities.1 Unfortunately, the work of four other ...
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Contenido
Basic Styles of Adaptation | 73 |
Development Consequences of Adaptation | 193 |
Concluions | 327 |
References Cited | 376 |
A Glossary of Defenses | 383 |
The Interview Schedule | 387 |
The Rating Scales | 389 |