LEADER 03850cam a2200397Ia 4500001 27802 005 20240621143501.0 008 980408s1995 xx r 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)38190918 035 27802 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 RC451.4.H62 |bK38 1995 100 1 Kay, Avi. 245 10 Genocide and generativity : |bthe effects of the Holocaust experience on generativity / |cby Avi Kay. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1995. 300 xi, 286 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Northwestern University, 1995. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-286). 520 Twenty European-born American Jewish males (ten concentration camp survivors and ten refugees who left Europe immediately prior the Holocaust) participated in a study examining generativity among Holocaust survivors. Participants were interviewed concerning generativity related issues, completed two generativity related measures and responded to Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) images in order to assess patterns of generativity. This study helps break new ground by examining generativity via both quantitative and qualitative measures. A critique of the existing literature, with emphasis on the evolution of knowledge concerning the psychological ramifications of the Holocaust, is presented. Following that, the relationship between generativity and survivorship is explicated through a typology and possible expressions of generativity. Insight into the patterns of generativity among "survivors" and "refugees" is seen as essential to the understanding of the adult development of Holocaust survivors. Data indicate that Holocaust survivors are a particularly generative group. Their level of generative thought and action far exceeds not only that of the refugee group; but that of other similarly aged groups examined in other studies with identical methodology. Further, the data indicate that survivors experienced generativity at a far younger age and that generativity served as a vehicle of survival for the survivors' group. Other major findings indicate that while there was an almost complete absence of technical generativity on their part; both survivors and refugees alike were driven toward parental generativity. That desire was characterized by a certain "magical" element among survivors. The principle emphasis of parental generativity among survivors related to the material well-being of their children. While, as expected, survivors expressed a strong desire to speak to others concerning their past experiences, the actual messages that survivors relayed to their children tended to be very normative in nature. Both survivors and refugees tended to refrain from speaking to their children about their personal experiences. Survivors, often out of a fear of being pitied or making their children sad. Refugees out of a sense that they had nothing of value to transmit. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1997. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Holocaust survivors |xPsychology. 650 0 Generations. 650 0 Genocide |xPsychological aspects. 650 0 Social psychology. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=741019351&sid=15&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib27802/9537455.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hRC451.4.H62 K38 1995 852 |bwww 852 |bebook