Resilience, social capital, active citizenship and subjective wellbeing: the contribution of generativity

Abstract

We define generativity as the combination of creativity and care for others wellbeing. Based on John Stuart Mill, Robert Kennedy and Antonio Genovesi quotes we test several research hypotheses on the available waves of the European Social Survey and find that generativity is associated positively and significantly with subjective wellbeing (under the different dimensions of life satisfaction and positive affect), resilience, interpersonal trust, active citizenship and participation to political elections. Our findings are robust across survey waves, gender, age, education splits and significant in estimates considering only individuals living in the same country. With an IV approach we provide evidence that the investigated nexus hides a direct causality link from all our the dependent variables.

What do we know about rural teaching identity? An exploratory study based on the generative-narrative approach

“…In other words, there is a potential relationship between generativity and resilience that could pave the way to generative pedagogical development in rural areas. Generative individuals tend to show higher levels of resilience as they have a clearer sense of life and are more flexible, which enables them to overcome crises, and they also have higher levels of subjective well-being (Becchetti, Conzo, 2021). Furthermore Sørensen et al, (2021) suggest that resilience and sources of meaning could lead to greater life satisfaction.…”