tailieunhanh - The Tower and the Cloud, p1

Tham khảo sách 'the tower and the cloud, p1', giáo dục - đào tạo, cao đẳng - đại học phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CHAPTER ONE The MIDUS National Survey An Overview Orville Gilbert Brim Carol D. Ryff and Ronald c. Kessler How healthy are we A national study of well-being at midlife. 2004 Brim OG Ryff CD Kessler RC eds . Chicago IL The University of Chicago Press 1-36. Midlife has been described as the last uncharted territory of the life course. Extensive prior literatures have been devoted to early life and childhood adolescence and more recently old age but surprisingly little attention has been given to the middle years which for most individuals constitute the longest segment of their life. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation established the Research Network on Successful Midlife Development MIDMAC directed by Orville Gilbert Brim to advance knowledge of this neglected period of the life course. A multidisciplinary team of investigators was brought together to organize existing work on midlife development and importantly to generate new understanding of the challenges faced by individuals in the middle decades of life including the contexts that create or minimize difficulties as well as the strengths and weaknesses that midlife adults bring to their life tasks. A major activity of the MIDMAC network was to conceive of and implement a national survey of midlife Americans. This study known as MIDUS which stands for Midlife in the United States is the raison d etre for the present volume. The central objective of this collection is to summarize the rich array of new findings generated by the MIDUS national survey. To put this endeavor in context we first describe the background and history of the MIDMAC network including the ideas and intentions that led to its members creation of a national survey focused on midlife Americans. We clarify the numerous dimensions along which this study was innovative and groundbreaking. We then briefly describe the sample design and measures of the MIDUS study providing along the way links to websites and technical reports that .