Introduction Who Is iGen, and How Do We Know? iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
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Jean M. Twenge
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“We go to the mall,”
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“No—I go with my family,” she says. “We’ll go with my mom and brothers and walk a little behind them.
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Athena says she spent most of the summer hanging out by herself in her room with her phone.
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iGen has arrived. Born in 1995 and later, they grew up with cell phones,
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“It’s like Apple has a monopoly on adolescence.”
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teens from disadvantaged backgrounds now spend just as much time online as those with more resources—
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eighty times a day.
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The i in iGen represents the individualism its members take for granted,
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They are obsessed with safety and fearful of their economic futures,
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They are at the forefront of the worst mental health crisis in decades, with rates of teen depression and suicide skyrocketing since 2011.
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iGen’ers are growing up more slowly: 18-year-olds now act like 15-year-olds
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(the extension of childhood into adolescence),
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decline in in-person social interaction),
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decline in religion),
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decline in civic involvement),
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Inclusive (acceptance, equality,
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the Millennials, the generation born in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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around 2012, I started seeing large, abrupt shifts in teens’ behaviors and emotional states.
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many of the large changes began around 2011 or 2012. That was too late to be caused by the Great Recession, which officially lasted from 2007 to 2009.
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2011–12 was exactly when the majority of Americans started to own cell phones
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The biggest difference between the Millennials and their predecessors was in worldview, with more focus on the self and less on social rules (thus the term Generation Me).
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with the popularity of the smartphone, iGen’ers differ most in how they spend their time.
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The Birth Year Cutoffs
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iGen’ers are the first generation to enter adolescence with smartphones
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iGen begins with those born in 1995
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In 2006, Facebook opened up to anyone over the age of 13—so those born since 1993 have been able to live their entire adolescence on
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the birth year span of iGen 1995–2012.
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The Name
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The Data
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1. In the past 24 hours, did you spend at least an hour total texting on a cell phone? ______ 2. Do you have a Snapchat account? ______ 3. Do you consider yourself a religious person? ______ 4. Did you get your driver’s license by the time you turned 17? ______ 5. Do you think same-sex marriage should be legal? ______ 6. Did you ever drink alcohol (more than a few sips) by the time you turned 16? ______ 7. Did you fight with your parents a lot when you were a teen? ______ 8. Were more than one-third of the other students at your high school a different race than you? ______ 9. When you were in high school, did you spend nearly every weekend night out with your friends? _____ 10. Did you have a job during the school year when you were in high school? _____ 11. Do you agree that safe spaces and trigger warnings are good ideas and that efforts should be made to reduce microaggressions? _____ 12. Are you a political independent? _____ 13. Do you support the legalization of marijuana? _____ 14. Is having sex without much emotion involved desirable? _____ 15. When you were in high school, did you feel left out and lonely fairly often?
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The Demographics—and the World
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The Context
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The Caveats
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I’m often asked questions such as “Why are you blaming the kids? Isn’t it the parents’ fault?” (Or “the Boomers’ fault?” or “GenX’ers fault?”) This question makes two false assumptions: first, it assumes that all generational changes are negative; second, it implies that a single cause (such as parenting) can be identified for each change.
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it’s not just parents, but technology, media, business, and education working together
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First, the two things must be correlated with each other. For example, we can see whether teens who spend more time on social media are more depressed. Second, the two things must change at the same time and in the correct direction. If social media use and depression both increase during the same years, one might cause the other.
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