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Broken Dreams
The midlife crisis has become a cliché in modern society. Since the mid-twentieth century, the term has been used to explain infidelity in middle-aged men, disillusionment with personal achievements, the pain and sadness associated with separation and divorce, and the fear of approaching death. This book provides a meticulously researched account of the social and cultural conditions in which middle-aged men and women began to reevaluate their hopes and dreams, reassess their relationships, and seek new forms of identity and fresh pathways to self-satisfaction. Drawing on a rich seam of literary, medical, media, and cinematic sources, as well as personal accounts, Broken Dreams explores how the crises of middle-aged men and women were shaped by increased life expectancy, changing family structures, shifting patterns of work, and the rise of individualism.
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Midlife Creativity and Identity: Life into Art
This book explores the artistic routines and inspirations of amateur and professional musicians, fine artists and literary authors experiencing midlife. Based on ethnographic insight, it argues that creativity is driven by the pursuit of a 'mezzanine' in-between state where the anarchy of possibility is an antidote to the realities of middle age.
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The promise of elsewhere
\"In this comic novel, our hero, Midwesterner Louie Hake, tries to prop up the failing prospects of happiness in his career and marriage by setting out abroad on what he calls his Journey of a Lifetime. Louie is 43, teaches architecture at a third-rate college in Michigan, and faced with a collapsing second marriage and a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis, he decides to undertake a high-minded tour of the world's most spectacular architecture sites: Italy, Turkey, India, Japan. But Louie gets waylaid--ludicrously, spectacularly so. After a stab at a new romance with a jilted bride alone on her honeymoon in London, he somehow winds up in the high Arctic, where the architectural tradition seems sad and laughable. (Turf houses? Corrugated aluminum sheds?) But it turns out there's another sort of architecture at play here--ice bergs the size of cathedrals--bobbing beside a strange and wondrous landscape. As it slowly grows clear, Louie's Grand Journey is a trip through his much-bungled romantic past. Whether pursuing by email his estranged present wife (co-habiting with a sexy playwright in the Virgin Islands), or his first wife (newly engaged to someone else), or an older woman he kissed once a quarter-century ago, Louie is both ridiculous and touching. A novel that is both funny and moving, a serious look into the Midwestern soul in crisis\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Changing midlife tropes: A transcendence into epiphany
Midlife is often stereotyped as a time of turbulence, angst and chaos, marked by inappropriate behaviours, broken marriages, infidelity and destructive changes. However, this article aims to challenge these stereotypes and present a different perspective. It argues that midlife is not a crisis; instead, it is a transformative journey into epiphany. This transcendent midlife journey is possible through gaining self-awareness, garnering insights and resonating with accumulated inherent (and previously undiscovered) values and desires. This starkly counters dated and prescriptive narratives that, left unchecked, descend into negative midlife tropes. Navigating this necessary period in adult actualisation has the potential to be deeply transformative and equip the adult at midlife to live a more meaningful and aligned life. This article presents a detailed discussion and findings from the journeys of five research participants who transitioned from midlife crisis to epiphany. Each participant's life story is analysed, drawing on themes from existing literature on midlife crises and emphasising the variables of transcendence and evolution into epiphany. The article challenges conventional tropes and describes the unique epiphanies that resulted from these transcendent journeys, providing a rich and diverse perspective on midlife transitions.
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Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning
\"At midlife in Seattle, Claire Dederer developed a sudden yearning for jailbreak. In this exuberant memoir, she reflects on two periods in her life uncannily similar in their emotional intensity: her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollections of herself as a teenager\" -- From back cover.
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Why we can't sleep : women's new midlife crisis
\"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked. Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to \"have it all,\" Calhoun found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, underemployed, and overwhelmed. Instead of their issues being heard, they were told instead to lean in, take \"me-time,\" or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can't Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X's predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss-and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Development and validation of the concise midlife crisis measure
Midlife crisis, characterized by emotional turbulence, identity reevaluation, and existential distress, is a psychological phenomenon often misrepresented or under-measured in both popular discourse and scientific literature. Existing global prevalence estimates are largely derived from general well-being surveys rather than standardized psychological instruments. Furthermore, there was a notable absence of concise, culturally sensitive, and psychometrically validated tools to assess midlife crisis in diverse populations. The current study aimed to develop and validate the Concise Midlife Crisis Measure (CMCM)—a brief, reliable, and conceptually grounded scale for assessing midlife crisis. The current research was conducted in two phases involving 470 participants (Mean Age = 49 years, SD = 5.29; women = 40%). The validation of the CMCM involved exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses along with convergent and divergent validity. The unidimensional CMCM, comprising 11 items (English) demonstrated excellent reliability (α = 0.954; ICC = 0.974). The model fit indices, such as CFI (0.962), TLI (0.952), RMSEA (0.089), and SRMR (0.032), showed strong validity. Convergent and divergent validity was demonstrated by the scale’s correlation (
p
< 0.001) with the Gerascophobia or Excessive Fear of Aging Scale (
r
= 0.325) and the Psychosocial Life Satisfaction Scale (
r
= -0.201), respectively. Significant inverse correlations were found between midlife crisis, age, and education. Tertile analysis revealed that approximately 32.6% of participants exhibited high levels of midlife crisis symptoms. The CMCM is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing midlife crisis in research and clinical settings.
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