we study connected orientable spacelike hypersurfaces $x:m^{n}rightarrowm_q^{n+1}(c)$, isometrically immersed into the riemannian or lorentzian space form of curvature $c=-1,0,1$, and index $q=0,1$, satisfying the condition $~l_kx=ax+b$,~ where $l_k$ is the $textit{linearized operator}$ of the $(k+1)$-th mean curvature $h_{k+1}$ of the hypersurface for a fixed integer $0leq k
