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The goal of this volume is to examine development in middle age from the perspective of baby boomers -- a unique cohort in the United States defined as those individuals born from 1946 to 1962. This is the largest cohort ever to enter middle age in Western society, and they currently represent approximately one-third of the total U.S. population. The Baby Boomers Grow Up provides contemporary and comprehensive perspectives of development of the baby boomer cohort as they proceed through midlife. Baby boomers continue to exert a powerful impact on the media, fiction, movies, and even popular mu

Midlife development in a life course context / Phyllis Moen and Elaine Wethington -- The developing self in midlife -- Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Loren Angiullo Connolly -- The midlife crisis revisited / Stanley D. Rosenberg, Harriet J. Rosenberg, and Michael P. Farrell -- Health and disease in midlife / Susan S. Merrill and Lois M. Verbrugge -- Women's health at midlife / Nancy E. Avis -- Cardiovascular health: a challenge for midlife / Ilene C. Siegler ... [et al.] -- Psychological well-being in midlife / Corey Lee M. Keyes and Carol D. Ryff -- The sense of control in midlife / Margaret Clark-Plaskie and Margie E. Lachman -- Gender roles and gender identity in midlife / Margaret Hellie Huyck -- Intellectual functioning in midlife / Sherry L. Willis and K. Warner Schaie -- A life-span framework for assessing the impact of work on white-collar workers / Bruce J. Avolio and John J. Sosik -- Middle age: new thoughts, new directions / James D. Reid and Sherry L. Willis