Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study (60 page)

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