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| | Mid-Life Crisis: Recent Research |
 | | The term of "mid-life crisis" was originally coined by Jaques (1965) who claimed that people encounter a crisis as they realize their own mortality and a change in time frame from "time since birth" to "time left to live" (Shek, 1996). |
 | | Specifically, the mid-life crisis is often thought to include: worries about the future, inability to enjoy leisure time, a feeling that health is deteriorating, a negative evaluation of the marital relationship, a negative evaluation of work life, and stress arising from taking care of the elderly (Shek, 1996). |
 | | In a study conducted by Daniel Shek dealing with mid-life crisis in Chinese Men and Women, Levinson's theory of the presence of a mid-life crisis in middle aged men and women is argued. |
| www.hope.edu /academic/psychology/335/webrep2/crisis.html (981 words) |
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