Generativity: At the crossroads of social roles and personality.

MacDermid, Shelley M.; Franz, Carol E.; Reus, Lee Ann De

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“…We can speak of generative individuals and thus place generativity in the mix of personality attributes (McAdams, Hart, & Maruna, 1998), as well as generative parents where most research efforts have focused (McAdams & Logan, 2004; Snarey, 1993). In addition, we may speak of generative roles and in so doing open the inquiry to a variety of family, work, and friendship roles in which generativity is expressed (MacDermid, Franz, & De Reus, 1998), as well as generative societies and cultures (Kotre, 2004). Curiously, in applications of generativity to families and societies, research has largely ignored the potential contributions of collateral kin, including uncles, and nonkin, including fictive kin and friends.…”

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Generative Uncle and Nephew Relationships

Milardo

2005

J of Marriage and Family

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This study investigates generativity, or a concern for future generations, in the relationships between uncles and nephews. Using in‐depth interviews, 21 uncles and 31 nephews were interviewed in Wellington, New Zealand and Bangor, Maine. Uncles describe themselves as supplements to parents, as friends, or as surrogate parents. Uncles act as mentors by providing nephews with advice and sometimes criticism. They act as intergenerational buffers and family historians by engaging in family work with nephews, providing insights into the behavior of parents or siblings. In turn, nephews provide uncles with insights into the behavior of family members. This study contributes to the literatures on generativity, men and caregiving, and more broadly third‐party influences in family relationships.

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Generative Uncle and Nephew Relationships

Milardo

2005

J of Marriage and Family

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“…This is perhaps the most striking difference between adolescents and adults in our sample, and suggests that protecting one's privacy online may be more complicated for adults than for adolescents. Adults often have more responsibilities and identities to manage than youth, and the quality of these social roles is highly relevant to adults' selfesteem (MacDermid, Franz, & De Reus, 1998). Perhaps this complexity contributes to the difficulty in predicting adult privacy behavior online.…”

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Hey Mom, What’s on Your Facebook? Comparing Facebook Disclosure and Privacy in Adolescents and Adults

Christofides

Muise

Desmarais

2011

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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People of all ages are increasingly exposed to online environments that encourage them to share and connect with others. However, there is a perception that adolescents are particularly susceptible to these cues and share more online than do other age groups. With a group of 288 adolescents and 285 adults, we explored differences and similarities in use of Facebook for information sharing and use of the controls to protect their privacy. Adolescents reported disclosing more information on Facebook and using the privacy settings less than adults. Despite these differences, the results indicated that adolescents and adults were more similar than different in the factors that predicted information disclosure and control. Adolescents spent more time on Facebook, which partially mediated the relationship between group (adolescents vs. adults) and disclosure. Self-esteem partially mediated the relationship between group and information control, with adults having higher self-esteem than adolescents.

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“…For example, Vaillant (1977Vaillant ( , 1993 proposed two additional stages ("career consolidation" after intimacy and before generativity; "keeper of meaning" between generativity and integrity), and Kegan (1982) proposed an "interpersonal" stage focused on "connection, inclusion and highly invested mutuality" (p. 87) between the childhood stage of industry and the adolescent stage of identity. MacDermid, Franz, and De Reus (1998) suggested that generativity is taken up in two quite different ways: First in terms of "proximal" family issues, and later in terms of other "distal" social roles. An alternative strategy to the addition of "missing" stages is the possibility that adult development should be conceived as made up of elements with different developmental trajectories rather than as occurring in discrete stages (McAdams & de St. Aubin, 1998;Stewart & Vandewater, 1998;Zucker, Ostrove & Stewart, 2002).…”

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Gender, Adult Development, and Aging

Stewart

Newton

2009

Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology

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The subject of gender in adulthood is, on its face, too large for a single chapter. In an attempt to define it so that it is feasible to address, we narrow our focus to three broad issues: gender and lifespan developmental approaches to studying adult personality; gender and the aging mind and body across adulthood; and the implications of gendered social roles for adult development and aging. We chose these issues for several reasons.First, we wanted to highlight the differences between a "lifespan developmental" approach to understanding gender in adulthood and an "aging" approach (see also Elder & Shanahan, 2006;Fuller-Iglesias, Antonucci, & Smith, 2008). The first emphasizes growth across the lifespan, often includes qualitatively distinct periods or stages, and does not focus on decline or decrements. This approach emphasizes ways that adults of different ages (e.g., in their 20s vs. their 40s) may differ from each other in important ways. The second approach nearly always includes attention to processes of decline and decrements in functioning, but also increasingly notes functions that do not decline or that might even increase. These two approaches are both important and have both been used to study some phenomena, but in many cases only one of them has been employed. For that reason, we have quite different impressions of aging itself according to these different views, and those differences have consequences for our understanding of gender. For example, personality has been examined most thoroughly in developmental terms in adulthood, is often understood in terms of continuities or lack of change, but has rarely been examined in terms of decline or "aging." In contrast, the cognitive and physical changes associated with adulthood are nearly always conceptualized in terms of broad processes rather than stages and, indeed, usually in terms of decline. Individual researchers who take both approaches to understanding gender in adulthood have advocated attention to contextual issues such as culture, class, or race/ethnicity, but most research has failed to incorporate it. We examine social roles as one set of contextual issues that have been studied in some depth and are often gendered, though men and women both occupy many of them.Finally, in this chapter we pay attention to those aspects of the psychology of adult persons that seem to be inflected by gender, though we note with interest areas where there has been little research. We assume that some aspects of adult psychology are general to both women and men (e.g., that responsibilities for work and other people generally increase until old age, that there is a switch in focus to "time left" after mid-life), and we do not focus on those. Instead we consider evidence that gender matters in certain psychological experiences of adulthood in the three areas mentioned above: personality, cognitive and physical changes, and social roles. Thus, for example, A

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Generativity: At the crossroads of social roles and personality.

Cited by 25 publications

References 86 publications

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