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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... forty-seven he was earning $35,000 a year. Throughout his life he had advanced steadily in responsibility, finally ... fifth and Dr. Tarrytown in the bottom fifth. Reflecting the relative success of the men over the twenty-five years ...
... five Mr. Goodhart had written, "I used to think I am not my brother's keeper but I've now developed a social ... forty-nine he was adolescent, almost a child. No wonder his Fort Lauderdale home resembled a nursery. Before I leave ...
... Forty-five percent of those joining the navy entered with commissions, and forty-five percent more were commissioned during service. In fifty-two percent of the men's efficiency reports, their commanding officers said that they ...
... forty percent were distributed throughout other professions like architecture and accounting, or engaged in ... five days or more. TABLE 1 Responses to a Questionnaire at the Twenty-fifth College Reunion 44 Grant Study 590 Members ...
George E. Vaillant. thirteen percent of the men averaged five days or more sick leave a year. These figures are much ... forty-eight the number had increased to forty percent. In Srole's random sample of New Yorkers only thirteen percent ...
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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 |