Human Growth and Development / Unit 12 HGD 1659 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vaillant and the Harvard Study
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The idea
George Vaillant, a leading researcher in the Harvard Study of Adult Development, endorsed Erikson and added career consolidation between intimacy and generativity.
In practice
Men in the long-running study coping through defences of varying maturity, such as confiding in others.
Where people slip
Vaillant found a midlife crisis rare among participants and argued that only longitudinal studies can show what shapes optimal development.
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