Relationships Between Race, Generativity, Activist Identification, and Activism for Midlife Women
Year: 2011
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The relationship between Erikson's (1963) seventh developmental stage -generativity -and activism has been a fertile source of research.Using a sample of midlife White and African American women from the Women's Life Paths Study (WLPS), the current research investigates how generativity is related to and predicts activism as well as how race and activist identification influence activism.The relationship between generativity and activism was significant for White but not African American women, potentially a result of high means and little variance in generativity and activism scores for the latter group.However, activist identification did strengthen the generativity-activism association for both groups of women.Additionally, while increasing generativity predicted greater participation in activism for White women regardless of activist identification, for African American women activist involvement was related to both generativity and activist identification.Implications for future research concerning relationships between generativity, race, activist identification, and activism are discussed.
Author: Susannah Hope
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W67604639