Men's dreams and the age of thirty transition.
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Title
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Men's dreams and the age of thirty transition.
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Identifier
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AAI3024837
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identifier
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3024837
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Creator
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Srebnick, Joshua M.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Laurence Gould
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Date
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2001
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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This dissertation centers on the development of men in early adulthood. Using the work of Daniel Levinson Ph.D., as well as other adult development theorists, it focuses on the personal and professional choices men make during this period and examines the transformations these choices undergo during the late twenties and early thirties.;This dissertation is a qualitative exploration of men's dreams in early adulthood analyzed through the lens of adult developmental theory. It uses the methodology of Intensive Biographical Interviewing, designed by Levinson, to obtain information about men in early adulthood. This hypothesis generating study uses the life history narratives of men in early adulthood to explore in depth the multiple meanings that dreams have in their lives. For this study, two samples of men from similar backgrounds between the ages of 30 and 34 were interviewed about their experiences. Half of these men's lives have been characterized by a specific dream while the other half of the sample consists of men who are equally ambitious, but have not found a single focus that defines their lives. The primary questions that are addressed are: (1) do men have dreams? (2) how the individual first forms his dream? (3) what factors in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood facilitate or hinder the implementation of the dream? (4) are men's dreams in early adulthood occupational (or independent) in nature, or do they contain interpersonal aspects as well? (5) does the individual and his dream undergo significant changes at or around age thirty? (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
