How Healthy Are We?

Acknowledgments
1 The MIDUS National Survey: An Overview
I MIDLIFE PERSPECTIVES ON PHYSICAL HEALTH
2 Sex Differences in Health over the Course of Midlife
3 Socioeconomic Position and Health across Midlife
4 Social Inequalities in Health and Well-Being: The Role of Relational and Religious
Protective Factors
5 Health, Well-Being, and Social Responsibility in the MIDUS Twin and Sibling Subsamples
6 The Menopausal Transition and Aging Processes
II EMOTION, QUALITY OF LIFE, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL- BEING IN MIDLIFE
7 Positive and Negative Affect at Midlife
8 Age and Depression in the MIDUS Survey
9 The Quality of American Life at the End of the Century
10 In Their Own Words: Well-Being at Midlife among High School- Educated and College Educated Adults
11 The Adaptive Value of Feeling in Control during Midlife
12 Social Well-Being in the United States: A Descriptive Epidemiology
13 Ethnic Conservatism, Psychological Well Being, and the Downside of Mainstreaming: Generational Differences
14 Psychological Well-Being in MIDUS: Profiles of Ethnic/Racial Diversity and Life-Course
Uniformity
III CONTEXTS OF MIDLIFE: WORK AND FAMILY EXPERIENCE, NEIGHBORHOOD, AND GEOGRAPHIC REGION
15 Is Daily Life More Stressful during Middle Adulthood?
16 Psychological Well-Being across Three Cohorts: A Response to Shifting Work-Family Opportunities and Expectations?
17 Work, Family, and Social Class
18 Family Roles and Well-Being during the Middle Life Course
19 Social Responsibility to Family and Community
20 Turning Points in Adulthood
21 Well-Being in America: Core, Features and Regional Patterns
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index