Adaptation to LifeHarvard University Press, 2012 M08 1 - 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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... First Harvard University Press paperback edition , 1995 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Vaillant , George E. , 1934– Adaptation to life / by George E. Vaillant . First Harvard University Press pbk . ed . p . cm ...
... first seventeen years of its existence , and to the many social scientists , too many to list here , who worked with him and helped him to gather its data . I am particularly thankful to Lewise W. Gregory Davies , who is the only ...
... first , Charles C. McArthur , was director of the Study from 1955 to 1972. Without his devotion the Study might not have survived to maturity . Not only did he gather much of the data that comprise the Study , but also , in welcoming me ...
... first studied by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck and a group of gifted women first studied by Lewis Terman and , later , by Robert Sears . The results from both groups , each of which was studied prospectively for more than half a century ...
... first marriage a good deal earlier than I did . The pleasure and fulfillment of my sec- ond marriage have ... first met these men at their twenty - fifth reunions . When I first got to know them , I was a thirty- three - year - old just ...
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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 |