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Vaillant, George E.; McArthur, Charles C.; Bock, Arlie, 2025, "Grant Study of Adult Development, 1938-2000", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/48WRX9, Harvard Dataverse, V5, UNF:6:FfCNPD1m9jk950Aomsriyg== [fileUNF]
The purpose of this study was to examine how a sample of men adapt to life. The original researchers perceived medical research to be too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and designed the study to chart the ways in which a group of promising men coped with their lives over a period of time. As the study progressed, some data were colle... |
Plomin, Robert; DeFries, John C.; Fulker, David W., 2025, "Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BCDSEU, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:qAMSTgoXlIX2kOD7zwELnA== [fileUNF]
The Colorado Adoption Project (CAP), begun in 1976, is a longitudinal adoption study that examines genetic and environmental influence on behavioral development. Investigators employed a "full" adoption design by collecting data from the adoptive and biological parents, the adoptees and matched control parents and their children. The entire data se... |
McClelland, David C., 1984, "Follow-Up of the Children of the Patterns of Child Rearing Subjects, 1977-1978", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z7E69N, Harvard Dataverse, V5, UNF:3:9M8uuMhUlK9OvhsIUBsQww== [fileUNF]
Of the 379 children who had participated in the Sears, Maccoby, and Levin (1951-1952) "Patterns of Child Rearing" study, 118 (58 females, 60 males) were reinterviewed and retested in 1978. Forty of these participants were from the original working-class sample, and 78 from the middle-class sample. At the time of the original study the participants... |
Romer, Nancy, 2024, "Fear of Success in School Age Males and Females, 1973", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WRQ3QI, Harvard Dataverse, V4
This research was a replication of the behavioral and nonbehavioral aspects of Horner's fear of success work, using preadolescent males and females as participants. It aimed to determine at what point in chronological development motive-to-avoid-success imagery in projective stories was related to performance decrements in competitive situations, a... |
Thompson, Laura Maud, 1997, "Indian Personality, Education, and Administration Research: Hopi Study, 1942-1944", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UFS1V4, Harvard Dataverse, V3
The Indian Education, Personality, and Administration Research was initiated in 1941 by the United States Department of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The project was set up as a joint project of the United States Office of Indian Affairs and the University of Chicago's Committee on Human Development. The aim of the project wa... |
Aug 22, 2024 - Original Murray Collection
Lachman, Margie E.; James, Jacquelyn Boone, 1997, "Health and Personal Styles, 1989", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XPDRPY, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:4:6,128:JQ7LFr4Kr/rtPpeRmC8WYKF5lqJFuAPIrWiSMNDOR44= [fileUNF]
This study, funded by the National Institute on Aging and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, examined the role of lifestyle as a mediator of relations between multiple dimensions of sense of control and various aspects of health in order to see if individuals with stronger beliefs i... |
Hoffman, Lois Wladis, 1978, "Fear of Success in Undergraduates: A Replication of Horner's Work, 1971", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DTIPAK, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:MhgL+QlU0vE6ngeN81YFZw== [fileUNF]
These data were collected in part to replicate Horner's original study of fear of success in college students conducted in 1965 (Log# 00075). The major purposes of the study were (1) to investigate what aspects of the anticipation of success produce anxiety in women, and (2) to see whether during the six years between the gathering of Horner's and... |
Fiske, Marjorie Lowenthal; Thurnher, Majda T.; Chiriboga, David A., 1991, "Longitudinal Study of Transitions in Four Stages of Life, 1968", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BCQSQ8, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:3:6DUekPowSthqZC4Xbw0UMQ== [fileUNF]
This is a longitudinal study of adults in four pretransitional stages (i.e., anticipating and preparing for normally occurring life cycle changes). The study searches out commonalities and differences in coping processes among persons about to undergo four very different types of transition, and also aims to contribute to the understanding of gradu... |
McArthur, Charles C.; King, Stanley H., 1992, "Harvard Student Study, 1960-1964", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4POMAK, Harvard Dataverse, V3
The Harvard Student Study was initiated by McArthur and King to examine the factors underlying personality change in late adolescence and early adulthood in a subsample of 50 students from the Harvard College class of 1964. The objectives of the study were to determine the extent to which various aspects of a college community can affect the lives... |
Aug 17, 2023 - Original Murray Collection
Belle, Deborah, 1981, "Stress and Families Project, 1981", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QUTY2O, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:xOuUDVBY/2nvGFVnbeL/kw== [fileUNF]
The Stress and Families Project was undertaken to investigate the relationship between life situation and mental health among low-income mothers, the group at greatest risk for depression. This longitudinal research project was interdisciplinary in approach and involved interview and observation data on mothers, children, and fathers. The participa... |
