PREFACE
1. Phyllis Moen and Vivian Fields, “Midcourse in the United States: Does Unpaid Community Participation Replace Paid Work?” Aging International 27(3): 21–48.
CHAPTER 2. TRANSITIONS: THEIR INFINITE VARIETY
1. Nancy K. Schlossberg and Susan P. Robinson, Going to Plan B: How You Can Cope, Regroup, and Start Your Life on a New Path (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
2. Gunhild O. Hagestad, “The Social Meanings of Age,” in The Adult Years: Continuity and Change, ed. N. K. Schlossberg et al. (Owings Mills, Md.: International University Consortium, 1985).
CHAPTER 3. TAKING STOCK OF YOUR SITUATION
1. Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman, Stress, Appraisal, and Coping (New York: Springer, 1984).
2. Nancy K. Schlossberg and Zandy B. Leibowitz, “Organizational Support Systems as Buffers to Job Loss,” Journal of Vocational Behavior 18 (1980): 204–17.
3. Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, “Causal Explanations as a Risk Factor for Depression: Theory and Evidence,” Psychological Review 91 (1984): 347–74.
4. Marylu McEwen, Susan Komives, and Nancy Schlossberg, Departing the College Presidency: Voices of Women and Men in Transition (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, 1988).
5. Bernice L. Neugarten, “Time, Age, and the Life Cycle,” American Journal of Psychiatry 136 (1979): 887–94.
6. Judith Rodin and C. Timko, “Sense of Control, Aging, and Health,” in Aging Health and Behavior, ed. M. G. Fry, R. P. Abeles, and D. D. Lipman, 174–206. (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992).
7. Robert Seidenberg, Corporate Wives: Corporate Casualties (New York: AmCom Division of American Management Association, 1973).
CHAPTER 4. TAKING STOCK OF YOUR SELF AND YOUR SUPPORTS
1. George E. Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).
2. S. R. Maddi, “The Story of Hardiness: Twenty Years of Theorizing, Research, and Practice,” Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 54, no. 3 (2002): 174.
3. Shelley Taylor, “Adjustment to Threatening Events: A Theory of Cognitive Adaptation,” quoted in APA News Release (December 1, 1983).
4. Grace Baruch, Rosalind Barnett, and Caryl Rivers, Lifeprints: New Patterns of Love and Work for Today’s Women (New York: New American Library, 1983).
5. Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991).
6. Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, “Causal Explanations as a Risk Factor for Depression: Theory and Evidence,” Psychological Review 91 (1984): 3347–74.
7. D. Kiersey and M. Bates, Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types (Del Mar, CA: Prometheus Nemesis Book Company, 1984).
8. Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman, Stress, Appraisal, and Coping (New York: Springer, 1984), 19.
9. Robert Kahn and T. C. Antonucci, “Convoys Over the Life Course: Attachment, Roles, and Social Support,” in Lifespan Development and Behavior, vol. 3, ed. P. B. Baltes and O. G. Brim, Jr., 253–86 (New York: Academic Press, 1980).
10. Gunhild O. Hagestad, “Vertical Bonds: Intergenerational Relationships,” in The Adult Years: Continuity and Change, ed. N. K. Schlossberg et al. (Owings Mills, Md.: International University Consortium, 1985).
11. Lillian Rubin, Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in our Lives (New York: Harper & Row, 1985).
12. S. E. Taylor, L. C. Klein, B. P. Lewis, T. L. Gruenewald, R. A. R. Gurung, and J. A. Updegraff, “Female Responses to Stress: Tend and Befriend, Not Fight or Flight,” Psychological Review 107, no. 3 (2000): 411–29.
13. Hagestad, “Vertical Bonds,” 133–66.
14. Kahn and Antonucci, “Convoys Over the Life Course,” 273.
CHAPTER 5. TAKING STOCK OF YOUR STRATEGIES
1. Leonard Pearlin and Carmi Schooler, “The Structure of Coping,” Journal of Health and Human Behavior 19 (1978): 2–21
2. Lazarus and Folkman, Stress, Appraisal, and Coping. (New York: Springer, 1984).
3. Ivan Charner and Nancy Schlossberg, “Variations by the Theme: The Life Transitions of Clerical Workers,” Vocational Guidance Quarterly 34 (1986): 212–24.
4. Gerard I. Nierenberg, Fundamentals of Negotiating (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973).
5. Psychology Matters: American Psychology Association website: at http://psychologymatters.apa.org
6. Salvatore Maddi and Deborah Khoshaba, “The Story of Hardiness: Twenty Years of Theorizing, Research, and Practice,” Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 54, no. 3 (2002): 173–85.
7. Bernice Neugarten. “Time, Age, and the Life Cycle,” American Journal of Psychiatry 136 (1979): 887–94.
8. Barbara Myerhoff, Film, “Rites of Renewal,” Owings Mills, MD: International University Consortium and Ohio University (1985). Also see “Rites and Signs of Ripening and Intertwining of Ritual, Time and Growing Older,” in Age and Anthropological Theory, eds. D. Kertzer and J. Keith, 305–330 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984).
9. Shelley Taylor, Positive Illusions (New York: Basic Books, 1989).
10. Robert Enright, Forgiveness Is a Choice: A Step-by-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001).
11. George Vaillant, Adaptation to Life (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977).
12. R. S. Lazarus, Emotion and Adaptation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 82.
13. Vaillant, Adaptation to Life, see 5–18.
CHAPTER 6: YOUR ACTION PLAN FOR MASTERING CHANGE
1. Nancy K. Schlossberg, Retire Smart, Retire Happy. Finding Your True Path in Life (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2004).
CHAPTER 7. TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR NON-EVENT TRANSITIONS
1. This chapter was based on studies done at the University of Maryland and the trade book by Nancy K. Schlossberg and Susan Robinson, Going to Plan B: How You Can Cope, Regroup, and Start Your Life on a New Path (New York: Simon & Schuster, A Fireside Book, 1996).
2. Kenneth Doka, Disenfranchised Grief (New York: Lexington Books, 1989).
3. Myerhoff, “Rites of Renewal” and “Rites and Signs of Ripening.”
4. “Rites of Independence: New Ceremonies for New People,” Ms. Magazine, (September 1984).
5. Lazarus and Folkman, Stress, Appraisal, and Coping.
CHAPTER 8. TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR WORK/LIFE TRANSITIONS
1. Stephanie Kay, personal communication (2005).
2. Phyllis Moen and Patricia Roehling, The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 7, 10.
3. Moen and Roehling, Career Mystique, 10.
4. Meryl Louis, “Surprise and Sense Making: What Newcomers Experience in Entering Unfamiliar Organizational Settings,” Administrative Science Quarterly 25 (June 1980): 7.
5. Lauren Picker, “And Now, the Hard Part,” Newsweek, April 25, 2005, 46.
6. J. Gross, “It’s Cold on Mars,” New York Times, July 22, 2004, D1, D8.
7. Judith Bardwick, Plateauing (New York: AMACOM, 1986).
8. Louis, “Surprise and Sense Making,” 74.
CHAPTER 9. IT’S YOUR TURN NOW
1. Stephanie Kay and Nancy K. Schlossberg, The Transition Guide and Questionnaire (2006). Available by contacting TransitionWorks, Inc., at www.transitionguide.com, or e-mail info@transitionguide.com. TransitionWorks has granted permission to reproduce this Guide but it cannot be copied and used, other than in this book.
AFTERWORD: MY FINAL WORD
1. Jack Riemer, Houston Chronicle, November 18, 1995.