Concept
Generativity
The concern, characteristic of the seventh of Erikson's stages in middle adulthood, with establishing and guiding the next generation, through parenthood but also through productive and creative work and the care of institutions. Its opposite pole is stagnation, an impoverished absorption in oneself, and the basic strength it yields is care.
- Broader concept
- Psychosocial development
- Introduced by
- Erik Erikson
- Key works
- 2
introduced by
- Erik Erikson 1950 Erikson named generativity versus stagnation as the seventh age in Childhood and Society, and made Gandhi's generativity in middle life a central theme of Gandhi's Truth (1969).