With the global population aging, and rising concerns about mental health, loneliness, and social isolation, understanding and enhancing later-life satisfaction has become increasingly crucial for ...

"The Rest of Our Lives," shortlisted for the Booker Prize, illustrates the task of midlife as defined by Eric Erikson: to ...

Generativity, first conceptualised within a psychosocial framework of adult development, denotes an individual’s concern for and commitment to nurturing subsequent generations. It emerges most ...

As generational gaps grow wider, those living in their old age are getting a bad rap. Younger generations see baby boomers as disgruntled, quick to anger, and hard to deal with. However, not everyone ...

For 86 years, researchers at Harvard have been studying the lives of hundreds of people and their families to discover what makes us happy. For example, the Harvard Study of Adult Development found ...

The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Too many years ago, while in a college psychology class, I was introduced to the teachings of Erik Erikson and his study of the eight ...