Read Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study Online
Authors: George E. Vaillant
Racism, 65, 82, 357
Radcliffe College, 105
Rake’s Progress, The
(Hogarth), 299
Reaction formation, 268, 278, 287
Reagan, Ronald, 156, 336
“Redemptive self,” 272
Relationships: formation of new relationships, 184, 313; intrapsychic conflict and, 265; maturation and, 146; mature defenses and, 370; model of
relationship-driven
development, 86; science of, 63; spirituality and, 344; Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and, 84
Religion, 16, 22, 114–115, 172, 284; born-again evangelical, 186; diminished dependence on, 20; divorce and, 220; health and, 339–346
Repression, 24, 268, 274–275, 280
Republican Party, 90, 335, 337, 339
Resilience, 92, 137, 262, 359–361
Responsibility, 146, 159, 161
Retirement, 159, 173, 174, 375, 377, 388
Retrospective studies, 3
Reunions, 91–92, 104, 120, 340
Rockefeller, Nelson, 336
Rorschach test, 13, 73, 74, 84
ROTC recruits, study of, 35–36
Rowe, John W., 227
Santayana, George, 107
SAT scores, 66, 68
Schaie, Warner, 240, 353
Schilder, Paul, 303
Schizophrenia, 7, 262
Schur, Max, 94
Science, 7, 12, 19; changes in, 75; empathy as subject of, 65; value judgments and, 33
Scott, P. D., 26, 36
Sears, Robert, 366, 367, 381
Seattle Longitudinal Study, 353
Self-actualization,
Self-esteem, 111, 112, 300
“Selfishness,” 117, 366
Self-starting trait, 132
Seligman, Martin, 58
Seltzer, Carl, 62, 71–72, 76
Selye, Hans, 252
Selzer, Michael, 303
Senate, U.S., candidates for, 90
Separation, 92, 151, 194, 361
Seventh-Day Adventists, 343
Sex and sexuality: abstinence from, 278, 279; in advanced age, 229; conservative views of, 16; fear and anxiety related to, 125; inactivity, 339; liberalization of parenting and, 20; in marriage, 194, 209, 216, 218–219, 363; premarital, 65, 186, 218, 337; repressed, 16, 280–281.
See also
Homosexuality
Shakespeare, William, 9, 148, 233, 238, 328, 351, 366
Sheehy, Gail, 4, 9
Sheldon, William, 62, 72
Shenk, Joshua, 360
Siblings, 38, 42, 43, 384; birth order, 140; Cherished relations with, 124; childhood environment and, 112
Significant (S) correlations, 34
Skinner, B. F., 64, 82, 104
Skodol, Andrew E., 267
“Sleeper” traits, 132, 133
Sleeping pills, 121, 122, 387
Smoking, 85, 112, 239, 257, 258–259; alcoholism and, 257, 301; cessation of, 30 249; disease model of, 300; early death
and,
345; heart disease and, 321; longevity and, 248; lung cancer and, 250; orality and, 119–120; physical health decline and, 243, 244, 245; pulmonary disease and, 230; as vascular risk variable, 132
Sociability, 36
Social drinking, 295, 300, 310–311, 359
Social sciences, 54, 65, 127, 332
Social supports, 25, 259, 286; Decathlon of Flourishing and, 31, 32; recovery from alcoholism and, 327; religion and, 343
Socioeconomic status,
Sociology, 12, 20, 22, 105, 368
Soldz, Stephen, 130–131, 355
Somatotonic, 16
Somatotype, 65, 71–72, 81–82
Spirituality, 147, 344
Spock, Benjamin, 8, 353
Sports (athletics), 66, 118, 122, 172, 276, 277
Stall, Rob, 313
Stanford University, 5
Stepfatherhood, 167
Stevenson, Adlai, 120
Stoicism, pragmatic, 50
Stress, 264, 288, 334; emotional, 46, 377; management of, 262; physical, 58; psychosomatic, 252–255; PTSD, 82, 101, 332–335, traumatic, 107
Strong Vocational Test, 87
Sublimation, 165, 169, 235, 274, 275–276, 281; artists’ use of, 361; case studies in, 276–280, 281–283; Decathlon of Flourishing and, 367; mastery of, 176; as mature defense, 268; as negotiation with superego, 366
Success, 4, 314, 370; Adult Adjustment scale of, 145; antecedents of, 35–39; career, 158, 274, 283, 387; conventional definitions of, 89; Decathlon of Flourishing and, 355, 367; identifying, 29; at love, 145, 146; love as facilitator of, 52; middle-class status as, 381; predictors of, 15, 39–44, 116; in retirement, 388; social class (money) and, 180
Successful Aging
(Rowe and Kahn), 227
Suicide, 45, 46, 247, 292, 301
Sullivan, Harry Stack, 63
Superego, 265, 366–367
Suppression, as defense mechanism, 118, 268, 274, 275, 287
Swedish Twin Registry, 252
Tarryton, Carlton, 153, 205, 206
Tax evasion, 95
Telephone Interview for Cognitive Studies (TICS), 75, 228, 238, 250–251
Terman, Lewis, 199, 381, 383
Terman Study, 5, 142, 354, 358, 366
Terman Women Cohort, 10, 227, 381–383; Career Consolidation and, 154; defined, 5; Generativity and, 179; Integrity and, 157–158; Intimacy with woman friend, 152; longevity of, 249; maturity of defenses, 274
Thematic
Apperception Test (TAT), 74, 84
Theories of Development
(Crain), 360
Thompson, John W., 57, 62
Time, passage of, 3, 14, 19; laws of adult development and, 8; maturation and, 187; prospective studies and, 4; scientific thinking and, 26
Tobacco Industry Research Committee, 85
Toilet training, 140, 232
Tolstoy, Lev, 135
Tranquilizers, 113, 255, 286, 306, 387, 388
Trauma, 227, 266
Trust, 147, 368; lack of, 119, 120, 121; learning of, 127; mature capacity to, 187
Trust funds, 70
Vacations, 134, 167, 388; interview questions about, 83, 377; life compared to, 202, 222–223; little or no time for, 119, 236, 325; with wives, 202, 212
Vaillant, Caroline, 381
Variables, 3, 10, 13; in Decathlon of Flourishing, 33–34; of nature and nurture, 35; outcome variables, 30; predictor variables, 30, 39–44
Vascular risk variables, 129, 130; dementia and, 134; minimization of, 251; physical health decline and, 244, 245, 246; sexual activity and, 219
Vegetarianism, 241
Velveteen Rabbit, The
, 49
Very significant (VS) correlations, 34
Viagra, 208, 237
Vietnam War, 68, 100, 120; opposition to, 335–337; PTSD among veterans, 101, 332–333; questionnaire and, 89
Virtue, 30
Viscerotonic, 16
Vision, decline of, 226–227
Voltaire, 164
Voting, 8
Waldinger, Robert, 54, 94, 95, 98; funding for Study and, 107; marriages studied by, 106, 193; Study of Marital Intimacy, 190, 203–204
WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants), 290, 303
Watson, John, 64
Weil, Oscar, 336–337
Wells, Frederic Lyman, 61–62, 72–73, 75, 84, 85
Werner, Emmy, 106, 208
Western, Robin, 94–95
What People Are
(Heath), 77
What Predicts Divorce?
(Gottman), 199
White, Robert, 104, 149
Who’s Who in America,
inclusion in, 30–31, 41, 42, 69, 134, 356
Wiehaus, Sylvia, 200–201
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, 6
Wisdom, 148, 158, 161; compassion and, 169; definitions, 186; Guardianship and, 155; hallmarks of, 168
Wisdom of the Body, The
(Cannon), 57
Wisdom of the Ego, The
(Vaillant), 57, 353
Wives, 94, 106; alcohol issues of, 198,
200;
behavior during interviews, 174; questionnaires sent to, 193
Woods, William, 62, 74, 101, 142, 355; limitations of methodology, 130; personality profiling scheme of, 77–78, 82, 130
Word association test, 18, 73
Wordsworth, William, 108
Work, 374–375, 377; enjoyment of job, 386; hours worked in old age, 167; lack of pleasure in, 173–174; work problems, 142
World War I, 61, 68
World War II, 67, 68, 166, 281, 333; censorship during, 83; combat exposure in, 247; “combat fatigue” in, 101–102, 319; creative process in veteran of, 363; Grant Study men in armed services, 82; identification of potential officers, 79–80; Manhattan Project, 57; military rank in, 43, 45, 172, 251, 323; officer selection in, 35; Terman women and, 382, 383
Wright, Thomas, 62
W. T. Grant Foundation, 107
X-chromosome-linked disorders, 348–349
Yakovlev, Paul, 147
Young, Algernon, 180–186, 214
Young Man, You Are Normal
(Hooton), 77, 140