Generativity in older age: Spanish scales of

generativity and its relationship with wellbeingF. Villar, C. Triadó, O. López, M. Celdrán, C. Solé, S. Pinazo, J. Fabà

IFA 11TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON AGEING

28 May – 1 June 2012 Prage Picture from www.legadosolidario.org

Young

Intimacy vs. isolation

Adulthood

Generativity vs. stagnation

Ageing

Integrity vs. despair

Love

Care

Wisdom

Generativity and aging

Erik Erikson Development as a sequence of crisis Its overcoming leads to new

competence

Workforce

Civic participati

on Informal caring

Volunteering

Generative activities

Generative concern

Personal wellbeing

Objetives

Adapt McAdams’s generative concern and generative behavior scales into Spanish

Study generativity in older age and its relationship with their well-being

Method

165 participants (M= 73.55; SD = 7.07)

Instruments Sociodemographic data Loyola Generativity Scale (LGS)

and Generative Behaviors Checklist (GBC) (McAdams & St Aubin 1992)

Satisfaction with Life Scale (SLS) (Diener, et al 1985)

Future Orientation (FO), from the Shortened Ryff’s Scales (Villar, et al 2010)

ResultsObjective 1

High internal consistence of the two Generativity scales (0.89:LGS; 0.81:GBC)

High correlation between generative concern and activities (r = 0.49; p<0.0001)

Objetive 2: Generative during Aging More generative concern than

activities (t(158) = 10.54; p < .001) As they age, generative activities

tended to shorten (r = -.21; p < .01) Life satisfaction is only related to

generative concern (r = .38; p<0.01) Future orientation is related with

both generative scales: concern (r = .27; p<0.01) and activities (r = .32; p<0.01)

Conclussions

Generativity could be a good concept related to aging that broad other positive concept of aging as productive or active aging

Feeling generative concern does not always lead to generative acts: Could have an negative impact in the long run?

Thank you!

Montse Celdrán mceldran@ub.edu