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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George E. Vaillant. This book is dedicated to the members of the Grant Study. Their fidelity, their difficulties, and their solutions have inspired, touched, and guided me for the past decade. My life is vastly richer for having known ...
... Study men themselves have helped me to put some of its strengths and weaknesses in perspective. One of the book's great weaknesses-and great strengths-is the degree to which it depends on the courage and generosity of the study members ...
... study, all of the men in the Grant Study had achieved good academic standing in a highly competitive liberal arts ... members of human society. The Study staff members were determined to pool their efforts and examine a group of healthy ...
... research with astonishing loyalty. As they have grown in stature, their study has become progressively more fascinating. The subjects have become bestselling novelists and cabinet members, scholars and captains of industry, physicians ...
... study of lifetimes protects the observer from many biases. For example, with ... member of this Study and, I hope, describe many others outside of it. I have ... members recognize themselves, I suspect that they will be wrong as often as ...
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 |