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Finding Female Fulfillment: Intersecting Role-Based and Morality-Based Identities of Motherhood, Feminism, and Generativity as Predictors of Women’s Self Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction

Abstract  

Focused on 113 U.S. mothers of college-aged daughters, we extend the existent role-based identity literature to address role-
and morality-based identities and their ties to women’s fulfillment. Specifically, women’s identities as mothers, feminists,
and generative individuals were assessed for their associations with each other, as well as their unique and combined associations
with women’s self satisfaction and life satisfaction. Across the results, generativity yielded the greatest significance.
Women with higher generativity identity report having higher self satisfaction and life satisfaction; women who were highly
committed to mothering have stronger associations between generativity and life satisfaction. Women with strong generativity
identities also tend to identify themselves as feminists. Feminist and mothering identity were not related to one another
nor directly tied to satisfaction with one’s self nor life. Implications are discussed regarding continued assessment of role-
and morality-based identity intersections as well as to the functions and limitations of the three identities and their assessment
featured herein.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original Article
  • Pages 1-12
  • DOI 10.1007/s11199-012-0186-7
  • Authors
    • Christine E. Rittenour, Department of Communication Studies, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
    • Colleen Warner Colaner, Department of Communication, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
    • Journal Sex Roles
    • Online ISSN 1573-2762
    • Print ISSN 0360-0025
Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 07/31/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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