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Midlife

A Discussion of Competing Models

Welleslei' College

Denise Del Vento Bielby

University of California, Berkeley

In recent years, both theoretical and empirical interest in the middle years has greatly increased. In an attempt to bring some conceptual and organizational clarity to a rapidly expanding area, this paper critically examines past and present research on a prominent issue in current research on the middle years, the "midlife crisis." A careful analysis of this work reveals two models of thought in the literature with fundamentally opposed assumptions about the nature of development in midlife. Our thesis is that these different perspectives serve as alternative paradigms of human development not only in the middle years but throughout the life course as well.

Research on Aging, Vol. 1, No. 3, 275-300 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/016402757913001


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