Lighter As We Go: Virtues, Character Strengths, and Aging
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Editura: Oxford University Press
Limba: Engleza
Nr. pagini: 312
Coperta: Paperback
Dimensiuni: 128 x 178 x 21 mm
An aparitie: 8 feb 2018
Description:
The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes. And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older. These worries tend to peak in midlife; but in Lighter as We Go, Mindy Greenstein and Jimmie Holland show us that, contrary to common wisdom, our sense of well-being actually increases with our age--often even in the presence of illness or disability. For the first time, Greenstein and Holland--on a joint venture between an 85 year-old and a fifty year-old--explore positive psychology concepts of character strengths and virtues to unveil how and why, through the course of a lifetime, we learn who we are as we go. Drawing from the authors' own personal, intergenerational friendship, as well as a broad array of research from many different areas--including social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, humanities, psychiatry, and gerontology--Lighter as We Go introduces compassion, justice, community, and culture to help calm our cascading fears of aging.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Character, Character Strength, and Continuity Over Time
1. The Oak Tree and the U-Bend: Age, Well-Being, and the Experience of Me’ness
2. A Look at the Grownup Years: Early, Middle, and Later Adulthood
3. Character Strengths and Virtues
4. Older Age in the Olden Days: A Brief History of Aging in the Western World
Part II: The Virtues
5. The Virtue of Transcendence: Beyond the Self
6. The Underappreciated Virtue of Humor: You Can’t Spell Joy Without the Oy
7. The Virtues of Humanity and Social Justice: Do Unto Others
8. The Virtue of Courage: If I Only Had the Nerve
9. The Virtue of Wisdom: Knowing What We Don’t Know
10. The Virtue of Temperance: Moderation in All Things (Almost)
11. The Virtue of Passing on to the Next Generation: The Bridge Between Past and Future
Part III: Putting the Virtues to Work
12. When Older Doesn’t Feel Lighter: Loneliness and Social Isolation
13. The Virtue of Appreciating the Cycle of Life in Elders
Appendix: Vintage Readers Book Club Readings
An aparitie | 8 feb 2018 |
Autor | Mindy Greenstein, Jimmie Holland |
Dimensiuni | 128 x 178 x 21 mm |
Editura | Oxford University Press |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780190693794 |
Limba | Engleza |
Nr pag | 312 |
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