Product Details
Free Press, April 2006
Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0743276973
ISBN-13: 9780743276979
Description
Called "The Entitlement Generation" or Gen Y, they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she calls "Generation Me" -- those born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s -- are tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious.
Herself a member of Generation Me, Dr. Twenge uses findings from the largest intergenerational research study ever conducted -- with data from 1.3 million respondents spanning six decades -- to reveal how profoundly different today's young adults are. Here are the often shocking truths about this generation, including dramatic differences in sexual behavior, as well as controversial predictions about what the future holds for them and society as a whole. Her often humorous, eyebrow-raising stories about real people vividly bring to life the hopes and dreams, disappointments and challenges of Generation Me.
GenMe has created a profound shift in the American character, changing what it means to be an individual in today's society. The collision of this generation's entitled self-focus and today's competitive marketplace will create one of the most daunting challenges of the new century. Engaging, controversial, prescriptive, funny, Generation Me will give Boomers new insight into their offspring, and help those in their teens, 20s, and 30s finally make sense of themselves and their goals and find their road to happiness.
"An informed, rollicking look at the epidemic narcissism, illusory optimism, and anxiety and depression of today's younger Americans. Compelling reading...Generation Me is marvelously written with a sparkling humor."
-- David G. Myers, author of The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty
"Twenge does a huge, decidedly un-GenX amount of research and replaces [hunches] with actual data.... [L]ucid and entertaining...bold...refreshing."
-- Chris Colin, author of What Really Happened to the Class of '93
"An informed, rollicking look at the epidemic narcissism, illusory optimism, and anxiety and depression of today's younger Americans. Compelling reading, Generation Me has all the makings of a culturally significant, major book. It's provocative. It speaks to many parents' concerns. It reveals the benefits and costs of America's radical individualism. It has the potential to be what The Greening of America, Future Shock, and other such books have been for previous generations. Rooted in science and rich in anecdotes, Generation Me is marvelously written with a sparkling humor."
-- David G. Myers, author of The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty
"In this startling, witty, and refreshing book, a pioneering researcher explains how the very personality of the average American is different....Based on careful, groundbreaking research, but filled with touching and amusing stories, this book explains exactly how the American character is changing and evolving, sometimes for the better, sometimes not."
-- Roy F. Baumeister, author of The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life and Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology, Florida State University
"Dr. Twenge provides an insightful analysis of the young adults she labels 'GenMe' -- their supreme self-confidence in their own worth, their concern with doing things 'their way,' and the benefits and costs that come from their focus on themselves. Twenge draws upon her outstanding research to describe generational differences and their sources, lending an authority to her analysis that few previous commentators on GenMe have enjoyed."
-- Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Ph.D., professor, Yale University, and author of Women Who Think Too Much
Redeye, May 29, 2009
...virtue of his or her inherent awesomeness. In her new book, 'The Narcissism Epidemic,' released in April, author Jean Twenge argues that society is more narcissistic than ever--and that young adults are hastening its spread. Twenge, ...
Redeye, May 29, 2009
...virtue of his or her inherent awesomeness. In her new book, 'The Narcissism Epidemic,' released in April, author Jean Twenge argues that society is more narcissistic than ever--and that young adults are hastening its spread. Twenge, ...
MySanAntonio, May 5, 2009
...Jean Twenge has a knack for chronicling the obsession that many Americans have with, well, themselves. In 2006, the psychology professor at San Diego State University wrote a highly informed book ...
Gulf News, January 10, 2009
...Simon Schama might undermine precious self-esteem. Guilty as charged, I had to admit, when I read recently that Jean Twenge of San Diego University had done a comparison between high school students in 1975 and 2006 and found the latter far ...
Jean M. Twenge's Books
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The Narcissism EpidemicThe author of the influential and controversial Generation Me and a recognized narcissism expert examine the spread of narcissism in our culture.Read More
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