posted on 2018-10-25, 11:51authored byMichael G. Clark
This research explored the nature, incidence and correlates of psychological growth and
generativity (Erikson, 1959) in the lives and careers of forty-one men aged 45–55, who were drawn in
roughly equal numbers from the occupations of manager, engineering specialist, skilled factory
worker, secondary school teacher, and priest. Three broad varieties of growth were investigated:
expansive and self-enhancing growth (which included the separate but related tendencies of
personal growth and career growth), individuation (or re-framing of self), and growth in
interpersonal relatedness. A multi-method approach was employed in order to examine McAdams'
& de St Aubin's (1992) proposition that the conscious personality domains of concern, commitment
and action (or accomplishment) show only limited overlap and, consequently, that the correlates of
constructs such as generativity vary with the domain in which they occur. [Continues.]
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Publication date
2007
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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.