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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Generativity"”.
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Systems, generativity and interactional effects
… to systems theory, we introduce the notion of generativity, and its byproduct, generative effects. Cascade effects are seen as instances of generative effects. The latter are precisely the instances where properties of interest are not preserved or behave very badly when systems interact. The …
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Effect of Employment on Generativity in Married Mothers
<p>Generativity is Erikson's seventh stage of psycho social development in his life cycle theory, but he postulates different ways of achieving generativity for males and females. Erikson proposed that a woman achieves a sense of generativity from raising a family. However over the last twenty …
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Workplace Generativity: Construct and Scale Development with Validation
Generativity reflects the motivation to invest in the development of others, ensuring the continuity and success of future generations. People tend to be generative where they invest their time—whether in the family, community, belief system, or workplace—as a means of improving the future for both …
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Encountering the Enemy: An Inquiry into the Limits of Generativity
This project involves a sustained investigation into the sense of the enemy. Chapter one begins by focusing on a common understanding of the enemy found within our homeworld: the political enemy. As will become clear, this mode of encountering the enemy has become the dominant framework for …
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Generativity in the Lives of Non-Metropolitan Lesbians and Gay Men
… with an eye toward understanding what forms of generativity were occurring in respondents' lives and what contextual conditions were promoting that generativity. Qualitative and quantitative data from Rainbow Illinois was used, making both studies secondary data analyses. The qualitative study …
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Ecological influences on the developmental status of parents of adolescents
… middle adult development, defined in terms of generativity, identity certainty, and identity concern. Children's development, social support, stress, personality, well-being, and background variables were investigated in analyses. It was further hypothesized that social support and stress would …
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How Private is Private?: Effects of Degree of Information Sharing on Group Ideation
… of this varied transparency on the groups\' generativity and collaboration. We found that in modulating transparency there was a trade-off between generativity and collaboration. Groups with diminished transparency felt that their groupmates built on their ideas more, but groups with …
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Inventive Response: How Teachers' Responses to Students' Writing Prompt Invention
… a case for inventive response, because students' generativity in their writing could be compatible with the growth-oriented characteristics of formative feedback. The study uses existing scholarship alongside the research questions to inductively analyze three document-based, semi-structured …
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Nothing to See Here: Generative AI, Neoliberal Crisis, and Intensified Counterinsurgency
… of protocols which in effect produce “safe” generativity as a means of policing epistemic and political legitimacy through the tactical disaggregation of mounting insurgency. Recognizing that, while an extension of COIN visuality, genAI simultaneously reveals this intensification as the …
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A Lifespan Perspective on Proactive Socioemotional Behaviors and Work Attitudes and Performance
… for socializing with colleagues), and generativity intentions (behaviors that concern teaching, training, or providing job feedback to colleagues or improving the work environment for colleagues). PSBs accounted for variance in work attitudes and performance, beyond other proactivity …
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Oribasius’ Woman: Medicine, Christianity and Society in Late Antiquity
… drew metaphorically upon medical discourses of generativity and patrimony to distinguish Christian society from the classical past, as chapter six demonstrates. In the final analysis, Oribasius’ Collections are shown to be intimately and variously in dialogue with the society that produced them, …
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Inanimating Matter: The Aesthetics of Putrefaction in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1660
… inorganic animacy—an ontological and aesthetic generativity immanent in matter’s very formlessness. Drawing on recent scholarship emphasising the profoundly embodied nature of early modern interiority, I place the period’s fascination with processes of organic decay in the context of broader …
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Executive function in adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a developmental perspective
… four distinct factors reflecting the domains of Generativity, Attentional Control, Working Memory, and Processing Speed. The FASD group performed significantly worse than the control group on the Working Memory domain (p < .01). On the BRIEF, a significantly higher proportion of the FASD group …
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Executive Function in Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Developmental Perspective
… four distinct factors reflecting the domains of Generativity, Attentional Control, Working Memory, and Processing Speed. The FASD group performed significantly worse than the control group on the Working Memory domain (p < .01). On the BRIEF, a significantly higher proportion of the FASD group …
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Development of Reading Comprehension Skills Among Students With Intellectual Disabilities Using Technologically-Based Reading Programs
… and theoretical bases for learning(i.e. Zone of Generativity, Constructivism, Self-Efficacy) on the issue of these students not being adequately prepared to academically compete with their non-disabled peers in the classroom in a technologically-based world which requires proficient reading …
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Unemployed Younger Baby Boom Women's Career Decision-Making Experiences: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… discrimination; bioecological systems influence; generativity vs. stagnation; identity expressed in career decision making; and influence of intuition, chance, and personal factors. The findings suggest that the women used the period of unemployment to become self-aware and thoughtful about future …
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Kinship Support Group: Addressing Grandparent Caregiver Challenges
… Grief Theory and Erikson’s Developmental Stages, generativity vs. stagnation provided an analysis and a better interpretation from the data collected from the participants. Results from the study suggest that being part of a kinship support group for participants has been beneficial to them as …
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Executive functioning in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
… CdLS showed significantly more impairment in generativity, flexibility and inhibition tasks. These relative deficits may be important in understanding the behavioural phenotype of CdLS. Longitudinal research of participants with CdLS from early childhood is needed to examine how changes in …
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Nine Peaceful Defenders of Headwaters at Redwood Summer: True for Me. Get It Done. Was it Worthy? What Got in the Way?
… with existing literature on pragmatism and generativity as related to engaged citizenship. Results suggest that for these activists there is a driving need to work towards environmental and social justice and sustainability for both human and non-human life, reportedly arising from their …
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Essays on volunteer mobilization in peer production
… -- to present evidence of a trade-off between "generativity" (i.e., qualities of work products likely to attract follow-on contributors) and the originality of the derivative work products that follow. In the third essay, I consider the relationship between volunteer mobilization and governance …
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