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Psychology and aging · Sep 2007
Midlife women's generativity and authoritarianism: marriage, motherhood, and 10 years of aging.
- Bill E Peterson and Lauren E Duncan.
- Department of Psychology, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA. bpeterso@smith.edu
- Psychol Aging. 2007 Sep 1; 22 (3): 411-9.
AbstractGenerativity and authoritarianism assessed at age 52 were correlated with criterion variables assessed at age 62 in a sample of well-educated women (N = 81). Results indicated that generativity predicted positive personality characteristics, satisfaction with marriage and motherhood, and successful aging. By contrast, although authoritarianism is linked in the literature to endorsing traditional gender roles, authoritarianism was uncorrelated in the current study with happiness about marriage and was negatively related to perceptions of motherhood. Furthermore, authoritarianism was correlated with neuroticism later in life. These data suggest that midlife authoritarianism may be problematic as women transition from their 50s to their 60s. Midlife generativity, in contrast, seems to offer one path to life satisfaction.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).
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