title: Social and psychological determinants of adaptation.
abstract: Social and psychological frameworks used to explain adaptation are examined. Findings from a study of three ethnic groups, Irish, Italian, and Polish Americans, aged forty to eighty are presented to test the effects of life stage, social surround, and personality on adaptation.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007494:Ireland / Q000208:ethnology; D007558:Italy / Q000208:ethnology; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010551:Personality; D011044:Poland / Q000208:ethnology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States