1. Generativity in older age: Spanish scales of
generativity and its relationship with wellbeing
F. 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
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2. Generativity and aging
Erik Erikson
 Development as a sequence of crisis
 Its overcoming leads to new competence
Young
Intimacy vs. isolation Love
Adulthood
Generativity vs. stagnation Care
Ageing
Integrity vs. despair Wisdom

3. Generative concern Generative
activities
Workforce
Civic Volunteering
participation
Informal
caring
Personal wellbeing

4. Objetives
 Adapt McAdams’s generative concern
and generative behavior scales into
Spanish
 Study generativity in older age and its
relationship with their well-being

5. 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)

6. Results
Objective 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)

7. 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)

8. 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?

9. Thank you!
Montse Celdrán mceldran@ub.edu