| Carol Ryff | |
| Birth Name: | Carol Diane Ryff |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Psychology |
| Workplaces: | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Alma Mater: | Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis Title: | Towards a salient behavior-change construct in adult development and aging: the implementation-culmination sequence |
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| Thesis Year: | 1978 |
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| Spouse: | Jack S. Dennis[1] |
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Carol Diane Ryff is an American academic and psychologist. She received her doctorate in 1978.[2] She is known for studying psychological well-being[3] [4] and psychological resilience.[5] Ryff is the Hilldale Professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Institute on Aging.[6] Ryff developed the six-factor model of psychological well-being.