According to Vaillant and Vaillant (1990), what best predicts health and adjustment at age 63?

a) Health and adjustment at midlife
b) Happy childhood
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c) Access to health resources
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d) Race and gender
Consider This: Successful adult life may be our own creations.
LO 12.2: List distinct parameters that classify individual life


ANS: a

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