Sentences with word «generativity»

Mid-years persons are healthy to the degree that they are creating a life - style of generativity with its ego strength of care.

Harding makes a compelling case for generativity as the key to understanding Falwell's — and fundamentalism's — continuing appeal.

It was hope and love rather than faith that seemed most clearly associated with maturity of defenses, with successful aging, and with generativity.»

As personal identity is the foundation of marital intimacy, marital identity and intimacy are the bases for generativity.

Psychologist Erik Erikson describes the developmental task of adulthood as «generativity vs. stagnation.»

To measure our values and stretch our consciences by the challenge of inclusive generativity is to be faithful to the biblical vision of the good life.

Attentiveness to the other, humble reception of the other, as well as a loving generativity are all signs of Christ's life in each of the baptized.

At the same time, ongoing interest in the community and the world helps a couple to continue the satisfactions of generativity after the children have left home.

cents and young ADULT - Generativity groups: adults, stages 5 and 6.)

Continuing life and the future well - being of Christians depends on fellowship with God, not generativity through procreation.

In adolescence, faith must grow to include a meaningful ideology; in the mid-years, to include generativity; and so on throughout life.

(Erik Erikson, Gandhi's Truth (New York: Norton, 1969), p. 395) Generativity involves generating and nurturing life by caring for children (one's own or others), the earth, people - serving institutions, culture, art, or those in need.

In the mid-years, achieving this goal usually involves couples» revitalizing their relationships by increasing their mutual growth, their sense of intentionality, and their active generativity.

Practicing generativity is the way to avoid group and family «in - grown-itis.»

For a discussion of intimacy and generativity see Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society (New York: W. W. Norton, 1963), pp. 263 - 268.

To implement our concern for the survival of a livable planet, we must make our circles of generativity more and more inclusive.

Erikson points out that the virtue or strength that goes with mid-years generativity is care.

«We are born of mothers, we had fathers, we mature, we make decisions about generativity, we think about a next generation, we face our mortality,» Turkle says.

His work has spanned the study of generativity in adult development, the role of power, intimacy, and redemption in human lives, modernity and the self, the psychological study of religion, and autobiographical memory.

Someone experiencing generativity contributes to society in a meaningful and collaborative manner (Hamachek, 1990).

Tallman and Bohart (1999) in developing a model of client generativity and self - healing, maintain that most therapy happens as a result of life experiences, as people experience problems, think about solutions, and try out different behaviors.

(Richard Evans, Dialogue with Erik Erikson (New York: Harper & Row,) Inclusive generativity is a basic survival value.

This kind of recovery of the value of generativity, to use Erikson's phrase, would certainly ennoble our intervention and our caring at both thresholds of life.

«Yes, interpersonal interactions are needed to stimulate certain kinds of creativity and generativity, so isolating people in offices is clearly not a good idea,» he asserts.

It can not produce another generation; it is parasitically dependent upon the generativity of others.

«I have been endlessly amazed at the generativity of our friendship,» he declares.

In positing as part of his psychological theory of man an immortalizing impulse, Lifton comes close to the concepts of «generativity» and «care» as developed by his former teacher in the psychohistorical method, Erik Erikson.

This anxiety is a stifling, paralyzing force unless one has developed a functional philosophy of life; a life style of «generativity» (Erikson), i.e., self - investment in the ongoing human race; and relationships of trust with at least one other person and with the Ground of Being.

Marriage is a covenant involving our deepest selves — our sexuality, fertility, generativity, talent, inadequacy and death.

Most important, self - investment — in social action and service - to - others — extends the period of «generativity» for the couple, helping them avoid ingrownness and the stagnation of increasing self - absorption.

It is during this stage and the subsequent three stages, that the primary developmental task (for adults), (what Erik Erikson calls «generativity») is to generate new life and to pour one's energies into the stream of history by investing in the new generation.

The life - style of «generativity» (Erik Erikson)-- investing self in others and the ongoingness of humankind — is essential to having the best marriages at any stage.8.

It involves developing a life - style of «generativity» — psychoanalyst Erik Erikson's apt term for generating life in the ongoing stream of society — living in terms of the growth needs of the family of man.

Harding's most original contribution to our understanding of fundamentalism is her analysis of the process of generativity.

(22) He points to the need in our modern world for a universal ethic in which nurturing and caring for the growth of others (generativity) becomes the guiding motif: «The overriding issue is the creation not of a new ideology but of a universal ethic....

The middle years, when «generativity» (Erikson (12)-RRB- is the central task of the ego, constitute a period of shared creativity in that the two are joining their skills and persons in generating new life between each other and in the family and community.

It is also a second - chance stage, when partially unfinished developmental tasks may be completed as a foundation for the life tasks of the three adult stages — intimacy (emotional and sexual) in young adulthood, generativity (being a generator or creator) in the middle years, and ego integrity (making peace with life) in the older adult years.

Personal and marital renewal in the mid-years depend on implementing three working principles in one's individual life and in one's relationships: growth, intentionality, and generativity.

Erik Erikson (who coined the term generativity) sees the development of generativity as the central life task and challenge in these years: «In this stage, a man and a woman must have defined for themselves what and whom they come to care for, what they can do well, and how they plan to take care of what they have started and created.»

Dealing with this school of biblical interpretation through the analogy of a living organism, we recall Erik Erikson's stages of growth, in which the crisis of middle age is one of generativity versus stagnation.

The developmental task of this stage (seven) is to realize their creative potential and to achieve what Erikson calls «generativity,» the investment of themselves in the coming generation, and in the currents of education, art, and science.

As Erik Erikson observes, the achievement of intimacy in young adulthood provides essential equipment for handling the life task of the next period, generativity.

Here are some questions derived in part from the twelve strategies in chapter 2 — which can be used to evaluate the adequacy, the generativity, of one's goals and priorities:

In that vision our caring and generativity are directed to all the children of one Creator who has made us all of one blood.