A study of adults in the General Social Survey: S. Highhouse, M. J. Zickar, and M. Yankelevich, “Would You Work if You Won the Lottery? Tracking Changes in the American Work Ethic,” Journal of Applied Psychology 95 (2010), 349–57.
Adult workers in the 2000s: K. W. Smola and C. D. Sutton, “Generational Differences: Revisiting Generational Work Values for the New Millennium,” Journal of Organizational Behavior 23 (2002): 363–82.
Another study found that manual workers: V. M. Ciriello, P. G. Dempsey, R. V. Maikala, and N. V. O’Brien, “Secular Changes in Psychophysically Determined Maximum Acceptable Weights and Forces over 20 Years for Male Industrial Workers,” Ergonomics 51 (2008): 593–601.
With US workers getting an average of only eight: H. Maass, “America’s War on Vacation: By the Numbers,” The Week, May 28, 2013.
Architect Ari Meisel, 30: Kampinsky, “Millennial Males Seek Work-Life Balance.”
Electronics retailer Best Buy instituted: R. Alsop, The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaking Up the Workplace (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008).
In a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey: PricewaterhouseCoopers, “Millennials at Work: Reshaping the Workplace.”
The MTV survey found that 81%: A. Hillhouse, “Consumer Insights: MTV’s ‘No Collar’ Workers,” October 4, 2012.
“First-rate corporate volunteer programs”: S. E. Needleman, “The Latest Office Perk: Getting Paid to Volunteer: More Companies Subsidize Donations of Time and Talent; Bait for Millennial Generation,” Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2008.
The book The M-Factor advises: L. C. Lancaster and D. Stillman, The M-Factor: How the Millennial Generation Is Rocking the Workplace (New York: Harper Business, 2010).
Boomers, GenX’ers, and GenMe’ers placed: Twenge, Campbell, Hoffman, and Lance, “Generational Differences in Work Values.”
A one-time study of US workers: R. Rasch and B. Kowske, “Will Millennials Save the World through Work? International Generational Differences in the Relative Importance of Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics to Turnover Intentions,” in Managing the New Workforce: International Perspectives on the Millennial Generation, ed. S. T. Lyons, E. S. Ng, and L. Schweitzer (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012).
In the 2012 MTV poll, 80%: Ibid.
“Millennials appear to be seeking recognition”: S. T. Lyons, E. S. Ng, and L. Schweitzer, “Generational Career Shift: Millennials and the Changing Nature of Careers in Canada,” in Managing the New Workforce: International Perspectives on the Millennial Generation, ed. S. T. Lyons, E. S. Ng, and L. Schweitzer (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012), 79–80.
“Millennials: All We Want for Christmas Is . . . Cash”: K. Rogers, “Millennials: All We Want for Christmas Is . . . Cash,” FOX Business, November 27, 2013.
In the over-time survey, 58%: Twenge, Campbell, Hoffman, and Lance, “Generational Differences in Work Values.”
In the study of Canadian 25-year-olds: Krahn and Galambos, “Work Values and Beliefs.”
Tim Kasser and I found that the gap: Twenge and Kasser, “Generational Changes in Materialism.”
In the over-time survey of entering college students: J. M. Twenge, W. K. Campbell, and E. C. Freeman, “Generational Differences in Young Adults’ Life Goals, Concern for Others, and Civic Orientation, 1966–2009,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 102 (2012): 1045–62.
A drawing accompanying the MTV survey: Hillhouse, “Consumer Insights,”
In one study, 40%: J. Stein, “The Me Me Me Generation,” Time, May 20, 2013.
In a recent survey of 23,000 Canadian: E. S. W. Ng, L. Schweitzer, and S. T. Lyons, “New Generation, Great Expectations: A Field Study of the Millennial Generation,” Journal of Business and Psychology 25 (2010): 281–92.
In the MTV survey, 75%: Ibid.
In the MTV survey, 90%: Hillhouse, “Consumer Insights.”
In the over-time survey of high school students, 46%: Twenge, Campbell, Hoffman, and Lance, “Generational Differences.”
among entering college students, 42%: Twenge, Campbell, and Freeman, “Generational Differences in Young Adults’ Life Goals.”
College career counselors believed: Hite and McDonald, “Career Counseling for Millennials.”
In an over-time analysis of career preferences: S. T. Bubany and J. C. Hansen, “Birth Cohort Change in the Vocational Interests of Female and Male College Students,” Journal of Vocational Behavior 78 (2011): 59–67.
Management professor Paul Harvey: Tim Urban, “Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy,” Huffington Post, September 15, 2013.
One of the few studies that looked: D. Sirias, H. B. Kapr, and T. Brotherton, “Comparing the Levels of Individualism/Collectivism between Baby Boomers and Generation X,” Management Research News 30 (2007): 749–61.
9. What Do We Do Now?
In a recent poll, 2 out of 3 adults: Ronald Brownstein, “The American Dream—under Threat,” National Journal, September 19, 2013.
Although 16% of teens said: Centers for Disease Control, “Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System,” http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrbss.
74% of 2012 college freshmen: American Freshman Survey.
“I’d rather have a dog”: Antonio Antenucci and David K. Li, “More Young Women Choosing Dogs over Motherhood,” New York Post, April 10, 2014.
In a 2011 survey, 77% of pet owners: Sharon L. Peters, “Are Americans Crazy for Treating Our Pets Like Kids?,” USA Today, December 20, 2011.
“We are in danger of producing”: Maureen Stout, The Feel-Good Curriculum (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2000), 119.
“We do not need to completely shield”: Alvin Rosenfeld and Nicole Wise, The Over-Scheduled Child (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 56.
“The risk of overindulgence”: Peg Tyre, Julie Scelfo, and Barbara Kantrowitz, “Just Say No: Why Parents Must Set Limits for Kids Who Want It All,” Newsweek, September 13, 2004.
Psychologist Roy Baumeister argues: R. Baumeister and J. Tierney, Willpower (New York: Penguin Press, 2011).
Author Chris Colin quotes his classmate: Chris Colin, What Really Happened to the Class of ‘93 (New York: Broadway Books, 2004), 56.
In Perfect Madness, Judith Warner writes: Judith Warner, Perfect Madness (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005), 277.
a recent poll found that 60%: Richard Perez-Pena and Motoko Rich, “Preschool Push Moving Ahead in Many States,” New York Times, February 3, 2014.
Another poll found that 74%: Emily Swanson and Dave Jamieson, “Paid Sick Leave Supported by Most Americans, Poll Finds,” Huffington Post, June 20, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/paid-sick-leave-poll_n_3471789.html.
in 2011, the US birth rate: Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2004 and earlier years, http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html.
Of 168 industrialized nations: John de Graaf, Take Back Your Time (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003).
Only about 17% of 4-year-olds: “State-Financed Preschool Access in the U.S.,” New York Times, February 13, 2013.
The authors of The Two-Income Trap write: Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, The Two-Income Trap (New York: Basic Books, 2003).
77% of married women: Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2012, http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html.
A biologically driven shift: William C. Dement, The Promise of Sleep (New York: Delacorte Press, 1999).
When the Edina, Minnesota, school system: Ibid.
A huge amount of research: C. A. Anderson et al., “Violent Video Game Effects on Aggression, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior in Eastern and Western Countries: A Meta-analytic Review,” Psychological Bulletin 136 (2010): 151–73.
Raquel Aviva, 32, offers: Alexandra Robbins, Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis (New York: Perigee, 2004), 130.
Michael Coviello, 25, said: Ibid., 206
You are also less likely to feel: Dave Ranney, “KU Study Exploring Treatment for Depression wit
hout Drugs,” Lawrence Journal-World, June 1, 2005, http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/jun/01/depression/?ku_news; and Steve Ilardi, interview, December 16, 2004.
University of Kansas professor Steve Ilardi: Stephen Ilardi, The Depression Cure (New York: De Capo, 2010).
Index
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A
Abdul, Paula, 119, 120
abortions:
legalization of, 76–77, 99, 284
and teens, 224
abstraction, 61–62, 63
achievement, 308
Acra, Reem, 42
activism, 185
Adams, Cecil, 15
Adelman, Melissa, 44
adolescence:
extending, 114–19, 152
see also teenage years
adulthood, emerging, 115–17
Adulthood Shock, 10
Advanced Placement (AP) exams, 158
advertising, 127, 173
agency, 126–27
aggression, 99
Agnos, Art, 163
AIDS, 222
“All About Me” (school project), 124–25, 309
Alley, Kirstie, 251
All in the Family (TV), 175
Allitt, Patrick, 199
Ambitious Generation, The (Schneider and Stevenson), 110, 296
American Association of University Women (AAUW), 79–80
American Freshman Survey, 4, 81
American Idol (TV), 117, 119–20
American Paradox, The (Myers), 179–80
AmeriCorps, 101, 269
Anderson, Ethan, 221
Aniston, Jennifer, 135
anxiety, 145–47, 148, 156, 202
appearance, obsession on, 134–36
Armstrong, Elizabeth, 216
Arnett, Jeffrey, 46, 103, 115, 117, 130
Asch, Solomon, 27–32
Asian cultures:
and ethnic identity, 234
hard work in, 86, 90–91, 314
assertiveness, 126
Astin, Alexander, 81
Atkins, Dan, 13
attitudes, use of term, 320
Attitudes toward Women Scale, 238–42
authority:
and first-name usage, 37
lack of, 36–37
parental, 38–39
questioning, 34–38, 51, 56
Avenue Q (musical), 171
Aviva, Raquel, 312
B
babies:
birth rate, 300
controlling family size, 133–34
interracial, 40
names for, 29
postponing, 115, 116, 152
unmarried mothers of, 38–39
wanted, 134, 284
Baby Book, The (Sears and Sears), 169
Baby Boom, The (O’Rourke), 60
Baby Boomers:
activism of, 7, 183, 184
aging of, 11
birth year of (1943–60), 1, 6
ideals of, 59
and mixed marriages, 40
parents of, xiv–xv; see also parents
self-focus of, 59–63, 66, 67, 68–69
and social approval, 56
tolerance of, 31–32
youth rebellion of, 56
bankruptcy, personal, 170
Basinger, Kim, 61
Basu, Alo, 122
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Chua), 307
Baumeister, Roy, 88, 294, 307
Be a Winner (coloring book), 71–72
belief in a just world, 102–3
Bem Sex-Role Inventory, 14
Bend It Like Beckham (film), 25–26
Bieber, Justin, 122
Billingham, Robert, 38
biological clock, 153–54
birth rate, 300
blame, assigning to others, 193–94, 196, 199, 202
Bloody Sunday, 227
Bobos in Paradise (Brooks), 61
body piercings, 136–37
Booe, Martin, 128
Boomer Nation (Gillon), 61–62
Borba, Michele, 128
Born to Buy (Schor), 138
Bors, Matt, xi
Bower, Jocelyn, 138
Bowling Alone (Putnam), 47, 150, 202
Braff, Zach, 116
Brave New World (Huxley), 65
Brides, 40–41
Brooks, David, 61, 140
Brown v. Board of Education, 232
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs, 174
Bryant, Kobe, 171
Bryn, Joyce, 222
Bubany, Shawn, 278
bullying, 99, 148
Burke, Brooke, 134
Bush, George W., 191
BYOU (magazine), 58
C
Campbell, Stacy, 263
Campbell, W. Keith, 67, 80, 92, 132, 133, 186
Cantor, Joanne, 310
career counseling, 296–97
caring for others, 99–104
Carrey, Jim, 25
celebrity:
dreams of, 171
obsession with, 121
and obsession with appearance, 134–36
Chappelle, Dave, 231
cheating, 33–34, 88
Chegg, Inc., 264
Chiaramonte, Joan, 3
children:
anxieties in, 145
as center of the universe, 128–29
child-rearing, 287
and cynicism, 184–85
day care for, 162, 167–68, 249, 286–87, 297–99, 302
deadline for having, 153
decisions elicited from, 127–28, 138
declining needs for social approval, 55–56
of gays and lesbians, 39, 258
good behavior of, 305–7
as impediment to happiness, 133
marketing to, 138
minority, 202
parents siding with, 309–10
peer influences on, 305
pets vs., 289–90
and school, see education
seen and not heard, 128
self-esteem of, 69–78, 81–86, 88, 293
suicides of, 147
values set for, 11
wanted, 76–77
Chronicle of Higher Education, 110
Chua, Amy, 307
circadian rhythms, 303
civic disengagement, 47, 187
Civil Rights Act (1964), 237
civil rights movement, 227–29, 233
Clark, Kenneth and Mamie, 232
Clementi, Tyler, 103–4
clothing:
as self-expression, 21–23
and sexual expression, 219, 223
shopping for, 139
codependency, 131
Cohen, Eric, 141
Colbert Report, The (TV), 193
Colin, Chris, 107–8, 122, 155, 198, 295
college admissions, 157–59
college populations, 321–22
Collins, Rebecca, 219
Columbine High School, 99
communications, open, 48–49, 51–53
community:
and social networking, 105–6
and stability, 157, 179
community service, 100–101, 102, 185–86, 316–18
competition, 9, 201
and depression, 161
and self-esteem, 83, 90
and stress, 157–60
Cone, Carol, 269
confession, open, 48–49
confidence:
of Generation X, 66–67, 69, 126
in social interactions, 123
use of term, 313–14
conformity, 23–24, 27, 54–56
control:
lack of, 182–85
by outside forces, 183–85, 188, 192, 201–3
and personal responsibility, 185–88
control scale, 202
Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, 69
Cosell, Howard, 236
Costs of Living, The (Schwartz), 155–56
Côté, James, 161
Couric, Katie, 212
Coviello, Michael, 312–13
Cowell, Simon, 119, 120
creativity, 87–88
crime rate, 98–99, 284
criticism, 91
Crittenden, Ann, 299, 301, 302
Crocker, Jennifer, 89, 232
Crosby, David, 62
cuddle parties, 151
cultural change, xv, 2, 4
culture:
and birth year, 2, 6
corporate, 281
and ethnic pride, 234–36
influence of, 11, 69, 311
and marriage, 156
and movie themes, 118–19
Culture of Fear, The (Glassner), 179
Culture Shock! USA (guidebook), 127–28, 129
cynicism, 182–85, 192–93, 194, 201–3, 253, 317
Cyrus, Miley, 215
D
Daily Show (TV), 193
Damon, William, 293
Daria (TV), 78
Dawson’s Creek (TV), 49
DDB Needham Life Style Survey, 146
Defining Decade, The (Jay), 115, 130
DeGeneres, Ellen, 13
Dement, William, 303
De Niro, Robert, 26
Denizet-Lewis, Benoit, 215, 216
DePaulo, Bella, 53
depression:
and competition, 161
and facing reality, 174
fighting, 314–15
and loneliness, 156
rise in cases of, 151, 180, 202, 283
and stress, 142–45, 146–47
and suicide, 143–44, 147–48
Depression Cure, The (Ilardi), 314
DeWall, Nathan, 96
Diener, Ed, 176
Disappearance of Childhood, The (Postman), 220
discipline, 128, 306
disengagement, 181–203
and cynicism, 182–85, 192–93, 194, 201–3
and excuses, 196–201
Generation Whatever, 181–82
and information overload, 192–93
and luck, 194–96
and media exposure, 191–93
and personal responsibility, 185–88
in schools, 199–201
self-esteem vs. reality, 193–95
and victim mentality, 196–99
divorce, 130, 151, 153
Dolan-Pascoe, Brenda, 80
dominance, 126
donations, charitable, 44, 100, 102
Donne, John, 296
Donnelly, Kristin, 240
Douglas, Susan, 127, 128, 248, 251, 252, 254
Downs, Hugh, 129, 131
Doyle, John, 198
Duff, Hilary, 135
Duke University, 157
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