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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... divorces and a not always satisfactory sexual adjustment. Adaptive style: repression and passive aggression. George Byron, Esq. —Government AID lawyer who had an excellent marriage and a very satisfactory sexual adjustment. Adaptive ...
... Another example of the ego's ingenuity was offered by a very gentle, idealistic lawyer. As a young man he had been bullied by his wife into taking divorce cases because such cases were 8 The Study of Mental Health: Methods and ...
George E. Vaillant. his wife into taking divorce cases because such cases were so profitable; but when he came home at night from his work, the maid would often tell him his wife was out and that no supper had been prepared. Gradually ...
... divorced, happily remarried, and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with my second wife and four children. I suspect that on the “scales" that I provide of adult adjustment, defenses, and childhood environment, I fall about in the middle ...
... divorce, Tarrytown did not complain. He hastened to report his good fortune at having a father who could offer financial support when he needed it. Only in middle age did Tarrytown acknowledge a painful truth that was already clear to ...
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 |