TY - JOUR
T1 - Generativity and social involvement among african americans and white adults
AU - Hart, Holly M.
AU - McAdams, Dan P.
AU - Hirsch, Barton J.
AU - Bauer, Jack J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported in this article was funded by a grant to the second author from the Spencer Foundation. In addition, preparation of the manuscript was aided by a grant to the second author from the Foley Family Foundation. The authors thank Philip Bowman and Jennifer Goldberg-Roffman for their assistance in conceptualizing this project and coding data and Rick Zinbarg for his statistical advice. The article was based on the first author’s doctoral dissertation in Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University.
PY - 2001/6
Y1 - 2001/6
N2 - The study examined the relation between generativity and social involvement in a sample of 253 community adults, approximately half African American and half White, between the ages of 34 and 65 years. For the sample as a whole, individual differences in generativity were positively asociated with social support from family and friends, involvement in religious activities, and political participation, and generativity among parents was associated with emphasizing prosocial values and viewing oneself as a role model and source of wisdom for one’s children. Controlling for mean education and family income differences between Blacks and Whites, African American adults scored significantly higher than Whites on measures of generative concern and generative acts as well as on indices of social support, religious participation, and parenting as a role model and source of wisdom. The results are discussed in terms of contemporary psychological research on the social ecology of generative lives and sociological studies of personal resources and adaptive coping among African American families.
AB - The study examined the relation between generativity and social involvement in a sample of 253 community adults, approximately half African American and half White, between the ages of 34 and 65 years. For the sample as a whole, individual differences in generativity were positively asociated with social support from family and friends, involvement in religious activities, and political participation, and generativity among parents was associated with emphasizing prosocial values and viewing oneself as a role model and source of wisdom for one’s children. Controlling for mean education and family income differences between Blacks and Whites, African American adults scored significantly higher than Whites on measures of generative concern and generative acts as well as on indices of social support, religious participation, and parenting as a role model and source of wisdom. The results are discussed in terms of contemporary psychological research on the social ecology of generative lives and sociological studies of personal resources and adaptive coping among African American families.
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U2 - 10.1006/jrpe.2001.2318
DO - 10.1006/jrpe.2001.2318
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0346508886
VL - 35
SP - 208
EP - 230
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
SN - 0092-6566
IS - 2
ER -