Correlates of psychological well-being at midlife: The role of generativity, agency and communion, and narrative themes

By Miriam F. Grossbaum, G. Bates. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Some Benefits of Being an Activist: Measuring Activism and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being (2009, background): “…Smirles, & Wentworth, 1997), but also with life satisfaction (de St. Aubin & McAdams, 1995) and other measures of psychological well-being (Grossbaum & Bates, 2002); however, studies have yet to confirm a relationship between behavioral measures of generativity and well-being (Grossbaum &…”
• Psychological well-being in mid to late life: The role of generativity development and parent–child relationships across the lifespan (2006, background): “…to quality of life (Keyes & Ryff, 1998), and empirical evidence links generativity to life satisfaction and psychological well-being (Ackerman, Zuroff, & Moskowitz, 2000; Grossbaum & Bates, 2002; Kinnevy & Morrow-Howell, 1999; McAdams, de St. Aubin, & Logan, 1993; Stewart, Ostrove, & Helson, 2001).”
• The effect of time volunteering and charitable donations in later life on psychological wellbeing (2010, background): “Generative qualities were also found to be positively associated with several indicators of subjective psychological and social wellbeing and of life satisfaction (Ackerman, Zuroff and Moskowitz 2000; de St. Aubin and McAdams 1995; Grossbaum and Bates 2002; Keyes and Ryff 1998).”
• The psychological impact of intragenerational social class mobility (2011, background): “…class positions suffer from higher levels of psychological distress (e.g. Kessler and Cleary, 1980; Miech and Shanahan, 2000) and feel more negatively about their life’s accomplishments (Grossbaum and Bates, 2002; Marmot et al., 1997; Ryff et al., 1999) than those in higher social class positions.”