title: Generativity in Elderly Oblate Sisters of Providence.
abstract: We explored how generativity and well-being merged in a group of childless older women: African and Hispanic Roman Catholic Religious Sisters, linking two minority identity characteristics.
  
  
  
  We qualitatively interviewed 8 Oblate Sisters of Providence (OSP), by providing a framework for examining the range of the women's generativity-cultural spheres in which generativity is rooted and outlets for generativity.
  
  
  
  Early negative experiences, such as fleeing despotism in Haiti and Cuba and racism within the Catholic Church, occurred alongside positive experiences-families who stressed education, and Caucasian Religious who taught children of color. This became a foundation for the Sister's generative commitment.
  
  
  
  Findings highlight that research gains from a phenomenological understanding of how religious faith promotes generative cognitions and emotions. Findings also reveal that the experiences of a subculture in society-African-American elderly women religious-add to theories and definitions of generativity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Maryland Baltimore County. blackh@umbc.edu.
authors.forename: Helen K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Black
authors.affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control Training Fellowship, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hannum
authors.affiliation: Doctoral Program in Gerontology, University of Maryland Baltimore County.
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Rubinstein
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: de Medeiros
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D002410:Catholicism; D003071:Cognition; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011788:Quality of Life; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D035781:Siblings
keywords: Generativity; Qualitative research; Religious Sisters of color; Subcultures