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Negotiating the middle years — ego-resiliency and successful midlife adjustment in women
Author(s)	Eva C Klohnen, Elizabeth A Vandewater, Amy Young
Journal title	Psychology and Aging, vol 11, no 3, September 1996
Pages	pp 431-442
Keywords	Adjustment ; Self esteem ; Older women ; Women ; Middle aged ; Longitudinal surveys.
Annotation	Mid-life is a time of heightened re-evaluation and re-orientation, during which individuals are faced with potentially stressful changes and turning points. Ego-resiliency (ER) is proposed as a powerful personality resource, which enables individuals to adaptively negotiate the challenges of this period. Through examination of data from two longitudinal samples of 208 women, Study 1 examined whether observer-based and self-reported ER assessed at the beginning of mid-life (at age 43) can predict life adjustments of specific relevance to this period assessed in late middle ages (ages 52 and 48). In Study 2, age 43 ER was used to predict directional changes in central life adjustments and feelings about life over this same period (between ages 43 and 52). Predictions across samples, across measures of ER, or both, were confirmed by replicated findings.
Accession Number	CPA-971120209 A
Classmark	DR: DPA: BD: SH: SE: 3J
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