Generativity and Adult Development: How and Why We Care for the Next Generation

Generativity is the adult's concern for and commitment to promoting the next generation through parenting, teaching, mentoring and generating products and outcomes that aim to benefit a world that will outlive the self. Almost fifty years ago, Erik Erikson introduced this concept in his famous eight-stage model of human development as the seventh stage of the life cycle, generation vs. stagnation. A new, interdisciplinary wave of scholarship has linked generativity in contemporary life. Thus, a new, interdisciplinary wave of scholarship has linked generativity to such ideas as creativity, leadership, altruism, social responsibility, citizenship and volunteerism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557984700
• ISBN13: 9781557984708
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
• Length: 511 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 1.5" x 7.0"