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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... psychologists scientifi- cally or professionally concerned with 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 ...
... psychological traits . . Your analysis seems to suggest that the preservation of any marriage , whatever its quality , is a positive indicator . This doesn't seem to me con- sistent with my experience and that of some friends . My con ...
... psychological study . Thus , there came into being a cohort of men who were chosen for study because they seemed ... psychologist , had studied healthy graduate students in great detail . A major conclusion of his investigation was that ...
... psychologists , physiologists , and an- thropologists . As specialists , these men recognized that each of their disciplines had been distorted by its focus upon the deviant or exceptional members of human society . The Study staff mem ...
... psychologically sophisticated reader may balk at my use of the theoretical construct ego mechanism of defense to de- scribe overt behavior . Such critics will be right if they say that I am really writing about adaptive styles rather ...
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 |