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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... Grant Study had a great deal of freedom in regard to both career choice and ... subjects' dreams, their unconscious fantasies, their slips of the tongue ... Study of Mental Health: Methods and Illustrations.
... Grant Study subjects deserve better than to be regarded as guinea pigs. Second, I am a clinician, and the men's lives have been discussed with clinical candor. Any resemblance between the examples in this Study and persons living or ...
... . Capacity for intimacy was valued less highly than capacity for success. The second bias is closely related to the first. The adaptive styles in this book will be overly weighted in the The Men of the Grant Study 3I.
... Study subjects were graduated with honors in contrast to only twenty-six percent of their classmates. Seventy-six ... Grant Study men were drawn from a privileged group, but not exclusively so. In I940 a third of their fathers made more ...
... Grant Study subjects, College Men at War, Dr. John Monks provides many useful comparisons.l Only eleven Grant Study men, instead of a statistically expected seventy-seven, were rejected for service on physical grounds. Instead of an ...
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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 |