Verkkogenerational identities are typically both defined in comparison to notional parents and highly historically specific. This article delineates the historical. Verkkolearn how sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, and psychologists define and study generations as units of historical and social change. Citations (75) references (71) abstract. Verkkoerikson's theory of psychosocial development defines generativity as the drive to benefit future generations and leave a legacy. Generativity has been shown to. Verkkorecently, there has been increasing interest in understanding generativity, defined as concern for future generations as a legacy of the self, in. Verkkothis study examines the potentially gendered consequences of grandparental death for adolescents' and their mothers' mental health, and whether. Verkkowhat people can get by acting on the behalf of future generations is legacy. Legacies have been defined as an enduring meaning attached to one's.