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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before | 
 enlarge | Author: Jean M. Twenge
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 4307
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0743276981
Dewey Decimal Number: 304
EAN: 9780743276986
ASIN: 0743276981
Publication Date: March 6, 2007
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Product 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.
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excellent understanding of today's young generation January 8, 2009
Phillip M. White (San Diego)
Excellent job explaining why the younger generation, and especially college students, are the way they are.
Phillip White
San Diego State University
 YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK!! December 6, 2008
Jason C (Northern California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Reason being; any person with a minute sense of intelligence will enjoy this book. It is a great read and never gets dull. The information is supported very well. It is obvious that Dr. Twenge took her time with her research and studies. As a younger make of twenty years old, I found that she is dead on in her analysis of what she labels generation me. There are few books I consider must reads. This one just made it onto the list. If you're interested, the others are; amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman, and 1984.
If you're young, this may help you make sense of some of the life around you and even sort out the mess and depression that we are so susceptible to.
If you are older, then it will certainly give you some reasoning to the madness that is taking place in our young generation.
I honestly believe this book should be read by everyone. Those who are part of my (I'm 20) generation, and even those who are not, so they can understand what they are dealing with.
I am very grateful for the book July 16, 2008
Marina Konfisakhar (Omaha, NE USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was born in 1959 and my son in 1984. The book helped me to see myself as a member of my generation. I was born and spend first 30 years of my life in Russia and would never expect to fit description of American baby boomers. Never-the-less a lot of things are pretty true for me.
The book helped me to understand why my son does what he does. Even though he is pretty intelligent, his expectations do not correspond to the reality. I am giving this book to him, hoping it will help him come to earth sooner. I think that having so many enlightening stories about similar young people will help him see himself in more real light.
I value this book as a parent/child/understanding toolkit. I don't have an opinion on how much input it added to psych research, neither do I care about this view. Having a lot of negative reviews (from my perspective) often illustrates that the truth hurts. A natural way to deal with pain is denial.
 Utterly Depressing and Inaccurate July 3, 2008
Fran
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The way the author looks at the younger generation is utterly depressing and inaccurate. She gives no hope or guidance as to what they should be doing to succeed in life. All she does is tell all of us how NOT to do it. Big waste of time.
this is completely uneducated... June 21, 2008
nixie_nox (maryland)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This author has no understanding of what the basis for narcissism and similar personality disorders are. While many people mistakenly and(understandably too) feel that it is someone who is in love with themselves, it is actually the opposite.
Do your research on true narcissism, and npd(narcissistic personality disorder) and you will find the root cause of the disorders is an extremely low self esteem. For someone suffering from narcissism, you will do anything, to boost your own shattered self esteem. Putting down others, engaging in illegal behaviors, you don't have empathy because you are trying to do anything to boost your own self-worth, because you have none.
This is why when someone with npd is criticized becomes defiant and defensive and even behave badly, because someone has inadvertently confirmed their own feelings of worthlessness.
Is this author really telling me by telling a child they can do anything that it results in narcissitic behaviors? Or is it really a result of parents so wrapped up in their own agendas that they were emotionally withdrawn. Did they dismiss their own children's feelings? When their children acted up and needed attention, did they dismiss them and put them in front of a tv, or bribe them with material possessions to keep them quiet?
You can tell a child a lot of things, but it isn't going to set them up for failure for life. But by being emotionally withdrawn, negating your child's emotions, by ignoring them and not acknowledging their needs and emotions, AND teaching a child how to deal with them, they set them up for a low self-esteem that leads to narcisstic behaviors.
My career has taken me into a lot of homes for quite some time. I see so many children who have so much, yet have so little. Entire neighborhoods that you wouldn't know that children live there because they are kept in their rooms with the tv while the parents did what they wanted. Or both were working crazy hours because Disney vacations and new suvs, big houses were more important then spending time with the family. I have seen so many kids drive to high school in new $40Ktrucks and cars under the guise of being safe. When children used to have to work to earn their cars. These children are overindulged because the parents are so wrapped up in their own lifestyles that the guilt makes them lavish guilt gifts on their children. Any technology to keep them compliant and languished. I have seen so many children spoiled because of guilt of divorce. Or parents competing. A family could live in a cardboard box but if the children feel they have the support and love of their parents, SECURITY, they will will grow to be responsible and empathetic citizens.
Narcissism is a sign of neglect. These children are doing what they have been trained to do, scream for attention. Children are a result of their upbringing. The parents were indulgent, but lacking in attention.
Children need endless love, but they need boundaries. Loving them is giving them boundaries. Being constant and consistent. There is nothing more importent then being constant and consistent. But this is lacking.
This author missed a major,major understanding, the psychology of narcissism itself, and the causes.
One of those major causes is parents(and it can only take one) who is emotionally removed. Resulting in a shattered self-esteem, for that child's own self-worth was never recognized.
To sit there and say that over-self esteem is the cause of the behavior is just scratching the surface of the iceberg of the causes of these disorders.
Did a parent tell a child that they can do whatever they want instead of actually listening to a child to find out what they liked, and encouraged them to pursue their interests? Did that parent ever find out what that child actually wanted to be or did they haul them off to soccer practice because they didn't know how to talk to them?
This isn't to blame all parent for deliberate neglect, because this can also result of a parent who is chronically sick, has a sick sibling, or a parent that suffers from substance abuse.
If you want to truly understand why people suffer from narcissism, then I suggest you look up npd and causes of true narcissism, and read books such as "How to raise an emotionally intelligent child" by John Gottman. People who have done actual research.
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