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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... Mature Adaptive Mechanisms and Men Who Used Immature Adaptive Mechanisms 87 Table 4—Dramatic Differences between the Best and Worst Outcomes 275 Table 5—C0mparison of the Adjustment of the' Lonely and Friendly Men 306 Table 6-Comparison ...
... maturity did not appear to be the product of social class, education, or gender. The undereducated inner-city men did not seem less capable of mature ingenious adaptation than did the Harvard graduates described in Preface, 1995.
... mature defenses but also generativity and career consolidation are distributed more equitably within the American population than are advantages that accrue simply as a result of social class or gender bias. (These findings have been ...
... mature adaptation. Approval of Joe McCarthy and Nixon, . . . unquestioning acceptance of the inequities of the status quo—these and like attitudes are hard for me to reconcile with emotional maturity. They seem to me more in keeping ...
... mature ego defenses and a barren personal life. Adaptive style: intellectualization, suppression, and humor. Mayor Jefierson—lntroduced in Chapter 7. Harry Haghes—lntroduced in Chapter 9. Chapter 11 Robert Bro0ke—A sensitive bombardier ...
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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 |