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Mansfield, Elizabeth D.; McAdams, Dan P. – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996
Examines differences between 70 more- and less-generative adults through a new coding system for analyzing themes of agency and communion in significant life-story scenes. The study revealed that highly generative adults express greater levels of the communion themes of dialog and care/help and greater levels of agency/communion integration. (LSR)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Family Relationship, Individual Power, Life Events