La tarea generativa en el desarrollo adulto: estudio entre los 35 y los 65 años en una muestra española

This research work studies generativity throughout the adult period of the life cycle that includes the age range from 35 to 65 years. Generativity was explained by Erikson (1959) as thoughts and actions oriented to the benefit of future generations beyond family ties and friendship. The challenge that each individual faces in adulthood; the interest in caring and guiding to ensure the well-being of young generations, leaving a legacy that survives them. Generativity is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the formal development of the subject and its social projection. If, for the survival of the species, humanity has the responsibility of caring for future generations, it must be understood that, in the present, each individual in particular should protect their biopsychosocial environment. Generativity extends transversally throughout the adult period sustained in the activities, roles and experiences of this stage, becoming an indicator of maturity, coping strategies, psychological well-being and resilience in a wide variety of generative patterns whose common denominator It is looking after what is different from me. Generativity is explained over time and relates early experiences to past psychosocial conflicts (epigenetic system). For example, when crises of identity change and continuity occur in the adult and old age period, they should be analyzed in earlier stages, given that emotions are organized and motivated within dynamic systems such as identity, which is typical of the stages. childhood, adolescence and youth. This is explained because part of the theoretical framework where Erikson develops his studies is nourished by the scientific legacy of Freud's psychodynamic theories such as the integration of affective and motivational restrictions in connectionist models in which the unconscious protects and supports manifest behavior. . Bradley's (1992) conceptualization of the five categories of generativity, which are agentic, generative, conventional, communal and stagnant, provides a coherent framework in which to study and compare their importance in the development of people's generative task in the adult period; a holistic view of development that describes the approximate point at which the individual is in the context of his or her life development that covers the experiential areas of the work environment, family, community and personal concerns. The main objective is to analyze the concept of generativity during adulthood (35 to 65 years) to check if there are differences depending on the different stages of adulthood, gender and profession, and to determine how the adaptive psychological variables of Maturity , Coping Strategies, Psychological Well-being and Resilience, predict this concept and its dimensions. Important lines of future research derive from the work and its conclusions, both for the study of generativity in general, and for the development of intervention techniques based on generative strategies in the different stages of adult life prior to old age.