Roberts P, Newton P M
Wright Institute, Berkeley, California 94704.
Psychol Aging. 1987 Jun;2(2):154-63. doi: 10.1037//0882-7974.2.2.154.
We reviewed four unpublished dissertations that used Levinson's theory to study women's adult development. The 39 biographies presented in these studies suggested that the women progressed through the same developmental periods as had men in Levinson's study and at roughly the same ages. Although the timing of the periods and the nature of the developmental tasks appeared to be similar, the ways of working on these tasks as well as the outcomes achieved were different. These differences are understood in part as consequences of the greater complexity of women's dreams and the problems encountered in living them out.
我们查阅了四篇未发表的论文，这些论文运用莱文森的理论研究女性的成年期发展。这些研究中呈现的39篇传记表明，这些女性经历了与莱文森研究中的男性相同的发展阶段，且年龄大致相同。尽管各阶段的时间安排和发展任务的性质似乎相似，但处理这些任务的方式以及取得的成果却有所不同。这些差异部分被理解为女性梦想更为复杂以及在实现梦想过程中所遇到问题的结果。
