In 1940 S.M. Ulam proposed the famous Ulam stability problem. In 1941 D.H. Hyers solved the well-known Ulam stability problem for additive mappings subject to the Hyers condition on approximately additive mappings. In this paper we introduce generalized additive mappings of Jensen type mappings and establish new theorems about the Ulam stability of additive and alternative additive mappings.