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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... human development will find little in the way of evidence or insight in Vaillant's offering.” To my immense gratification, long-term follow-up has suggested that he was quite wrong. Despite the predictions of the reviewer, the book ...
... human condition—to be faced, expressed, and not denied. I am working hard to understand and to put in perspective their “adaptation to aging.” As they once made me look forward to life after Harvard, they now make me look forward to ...
... human society. The Study staff members were determined to pool their efforts and examine a group of healthy young men. In the mid-1940s, the first two books on the Study were published. What People Are by Clark Heath and Young Man, You ...
... human love to the world."7 I heartily agree with such criteria, but in what units do you measure them? Unfortunately, ideal definitions cannot be systematically applied to real people. Like beauty, the perception of such abstractions ...
... humans do and how humans feel are closely related. Because an introduction permits the writer certain liberties, I shall use it to orient the reader further to my theoretical bias. Since the focus of the Study is upon adaptation to life ...
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 |