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发帖数: 534 | 1 The Berkeley researchers have interesting findings about psychological cycle for both women and men during the period of their midlife crisis.
Let's take a close look at what these researchers address in their research paper.
By age forty, women described as independent, bright and interesting in
adolescence were depressed, irritable and conflicted. However, by age fifty,these women had rebounded.At forty, the independent women were quite dissatisfied and in the midst of what looked like a crisis.They were bothered by demands of work and family and exhibited low levels of
psychological health. By fifty, they had survived the transition and seemed much more stable to trust and to be close.
Men improved in psychological health between forty and fifty were described as expansive, sensuous, outgoing, and impulsiveness, adopting a sort of macho exaggeration of the masculine stereotype - angry, hostile, defensive and ruminative. At fifty, the improvers were able to give up this dubious adaptation and move toward greater closeness and intimacy in their interactions with others.
In sum, researchers conclude that for both men and women, inability to
conform to the conventional gender stereotype is often associated with
unhappiness and dissatisfaction as one enters middle age, but over the the years from forty to fifty, it is possible to learn to cope with stereotyped,external demands in a more personally gratifying way. |
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