From: The Wall Street Journal
The Myth of the Midlife Crisis
The Wall Street Journal:
Waiting for your midlife crisis? Relax. It’s probably not coming.
According to a growing body of research, midlife upheavals are more fiction than fact.
“Despite its popularity in the popular culture, there isn’t much evidence for a midlife crisis,” says Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is conducting a continuing study of more than 450 people who graduated from college between 1965 and 2006. The study’s latest installment is scheduled for publication in 2015.
The term midlife crisis, coined in 1965 by psychoanalyst Elliot Jacques, was popularized in the 1970s by authors including Gail Sheehy. It quickly made its way into self-help books, television sitcoms and movies, from “Manhattan” to “American Beauty.”
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