Human Growth and Development / Unit 14 HGD 1953 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Levinson's Midlife Transition
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The idea
Levinson described life structure, the pattern of a life at a given time, alternating eras and transitions, with a midlife transition at about forty to forty-five.
In practice
A forty-two-year-old re-evaluating early-adult goals before settling into middle adulthood.
Where people slip
Levinson's study, first published in nineteen seventy-eight, drew on forty men aged thirty-five to forty-five, mostly White Americans of one generation.
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