Generativity

 Generativity refers to a concern developed in an individual during the mid-ages whereby they have the need to guide and nurture the young into the next generation.  Generativity theory refers to involve a predictive premise of individual behavior creation. This theory assets that noble behavior in an individual results from dynamic interactions among behaviors that have been established in the past or rather interconnections among old ideas lead to new ideas for that matter.  In addition, in learning process the creativity skill can be learnt through various strategies which can enhance innovation.  This process of interrelation is predictable and orderly.  This theory was coined and proposed in early 1980s by Robert Epstein, an American psychologist after carting out various studies of people and animals (Hutchison, 2008).  

Generativity helps in preventing stagnation so that instead of using ones energy in helping others, he or her energy is used in focusing on personal needs. In this manner, generativity helped by the personality of a person to flourish even when they are providing essential support or sustenance for the next future generation.  The personality of a person determines their care-giving tendencies so that generativity is enhanced more by those people whose character is defined by commitment and concern for the next generations. Their personality enhances generativity when they energetically follow their concern for the welfare of the next generation.

 Generativity and gender relationship results from the social motives of both adults and may relate to either communal or agentic motives.  For the female gender the need and power to nurture the next generation relates to their parenting roles so that women have are highly drawn to parenting than the men. In addition, the motive for the female can be associated with some generative expressions that are outside the household and the opposite pattern can be found for both genders ( Chakraborty & Das, 2013)..  The physical functioning for each gender comes into play so that women who give birth to the next generation have a higher affinity to caring and nurturing while men’s role of providing for the family actuates generativity.  Men tend to enhance generativity only after being parents, so that their leaning towards parental generativity is more explicit through disciplining and nurturing of their offspring.  They initiate their offspring into family tradition, and continue guiding, supporting, teaching and protecting them while in their adolescent years.  Female on the other hand can be said to enhance generativity biologically and this relates to bearing and raising their infant as a generative object genders ( Chakraborty & Das, 2013).

The presentation was quite was quite successful considering the kind of information acquired through the understanding the generativity theory and the concept held there in. The results of the survey indicate that most participants understood the meaning of generativity and even the theory behind with an indication of 5 for strong agree with this. In addition, many of the respondents indicated that they understood the contribution of generativity gender and personality towards generativity. Most indicated that information on generativity was clear and they understood how to increase their generativity.

Reference

Hutchison, E. D. (2008). Dimensions of human behavior. Los Angeles, Calif: Sage Publications.

Chakraborty, N., & Das, S. (2013). Influence of psychiatric morbidity and self-efficacy on midlife generativity. Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, 4(7), 1374.