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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... intellectual climate and the institutional support needed to conceive, research, and write this book. My patrons have been Bert Boothe of the Career Investigator Grant Program of the National Institute of Mental Health and Douglas Bond ...
... intellectual critics (Leon Shapiro, Leston Havens, Norman Zinberg, Bennett Simon, John Mack, Jerome Kagan, George Goethals, Henry Grunebaum, and Stuart Hauser). Some have helped me as editors (Clark Heath, Suzannah Vaillant Hatt, and ...
... intellectual achievement. Three decades later, as they pass their fiftieth birthdays, most are still alive and without disabling physical illness. Over ninety percent have founded stable families. Virtually all have achieved ...
... intellectual ability. Happygo-lucky but equally stable youngsters who felt less need to achieve were probably underrepresented. Capacity for intimacy was valued less highly than capacity for success. The second bias is closely related ...
... intellectual and socioeconomic. As measured by their Scholastic Achievement Tests (SATs), the academic achievement of the students chosen fell in the top five to ten percent of high school graduates, but their average score of 584 did ...
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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 |