generativity

toc = 1375576610 1366762618 = = Definition: = A sense that one is making a valuable contribution to society by bringing up children or mentoring younger people in some way. HGD Chapter 16 Pp .414

= Examples: = Many grandparents are concered with how much time their grandchildern are spending playing video games.

The optimum expression of generativity requires turning outward from a preoccupation with self, a kind of psychological expansion toward caring for others.

Those who fail to develop generativity often suffer from a "prevading sense of stagnation and personal impoverishment [and indulge themselves] as if they were their own one and only child" (Erikson, 1963, p. 267)

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