Generative women were generally satisfied as wives and mothers and experienced the transition from their 50s to their 60s in positive ways. Correlations between generativity and criterion variables were moderate, but this seems to reflect a mature realism on the part of the generative women. In the open-ended responses they avoided global expressions of happiness and instead expressed contentment in more specific ways. The authoritarian women, by contrast, seemed to experience much less positive affect(e.g., less confident power), especially as mothers.