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Women on the river of life : a fifty-year study of adult development /

"Commenced in 1958 with 142 young women who were seniors at Mills College, the Mills Study has become the largest and longest longitudinal study of women's adult development, with assessments of these women in their twenties, forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies. Women on the River of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Helson, Ravenna M., 1925- (Autor), Mitchell, Valory (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • How the Mills Study came about
  • Transforming into a study of women's adult development
  • Sustaining fifty years of the Mills Study
  • The roots of creativity in women
  • The social clock project
  • Marriage and motherhood
  • Illustrating two developmental theories: Levinson and Gilligan
  • Loevinger's theory of ego development
  • The enormous impact of gender expectations
  • The sweep of history : the counter culture, gay liberation, individualism
  • The astonishing importance of personality traits
  • Ups and downs in middle age
  • The social clock in middle age
  • Whatever happened to creativity in women?
  • Women's prime of life
  • The centrality of attachment
  • Paths of development: Three conceptions of positive mental health
  • Wisdom
  • Generativity and individuation : tasks of the second half of life
  • Answering four questions about creative personality
  • The place of purpose in life in women's positive aging : women with low purpose
  • The place of purpose in life in women's positive aging : women with high purpose
  • Late adulthood : the third age.