The women who responded to both surveys scored higher on generativity than did those women who responded only in 1995, t(130) = 2.58, p < .05. It would appear that generative women are more interested than less generative women in continuing to involve themselves in psychological research. Thus, some results of this study may need to be interpreted with caution in that hypotheses were tested on a more generative subsample of the original data set. However, none of the following key demographic variables from 1995 showed any difference between those who returned a survey in 2005 and those who did not: social class background, t(130)= 0.72,ns; level of education beyond a bachelor’s,
t(129)= 0.79, ns; years of full-time work, t(124)= 1.09; current work satisfaction, t(132)= 0.36; age at first marriage, t(124) = 0.86, ns; ever divorced, t(131) = 0.33; number of children, t(129) = 1.14, ns; and political orientation (conservative vs. liberal continuum), t(99) = 0.99,ns.
Before examining the relationships of generativity and authoritarianism to the criterion variables, we correlated age 52 scores on generativity with age 52 scores on authoritarianism. Replicating past work on other adult samples, the two variables were only weakly related in the current sample(r= -.21, p< .10).
Results for the open-ended data are reported in Table 1.
基準変数に対する次世代育成能力と権威主義の関係を調べる前に、52歳時の次世代育成能力のスコアと52歳時の権威主義のスコアを相関させました。他の大人のサンプルによる過去の研究の再現となり、二つの変数は、今回のサンプル(r=-.21、p < .10)では、わずかな関連性があるのみでした。
制約をかけないデータに対する結果は、表1で報告しています。
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