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Jean Twenge
blurry, distant photo of Jean Twenge wearing a navy blue blazer, standing with arms crossed in front of her body
Twenge in 2018
Born
Jean Marie Twenge

(1971-08-24) August 24, 1971 (age 52) [2]
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for iGen
Children3 [3]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions San Diego State University
Thesis Assertiveness, sociability, and anxiety: a cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1928–1993 (1998)
Website www.jeantwenge.com Edit this at Wikidata

Jean Marie Twenge (born August 24, 1971) [2] is an American psychologist researching generational differences, including work values, life goals, and speed of development. She is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, [4] [5] [1] author, consultant, and public speaker. [6] She has examined generational differences in work attitudes, [7] life goals, [8] developmental speed, [9] sexual behavior, [10] and religious commitment. [11]

She is also known for her books iGen, [12] Generation Me [13] and The Narcissism Epidemic. [14] In the September 2017 issue of The Atlantic, Twenge argued that smartphones were the most likely cause behind the sudden increases in mental health issues among teens after 2012. [15] [16] Twenge co-authored a 2017 corpus linguistics analysis that said that George Carlin's " seven dirty words you can't say on television" were used 28 times more frequently in 2008 than in 1950 in the texts at Google Books. Twenge said the increase is due to the dominance of self over social conventions. [17] [18]

Education

Twenge was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan where she was awarded a PhD in 1998 for a meta-analysis of assertiveness, sociability and anxiety. [19]

Career and research

Twenge's research investigates issues around generations, personality, social psychology and gender roles. [1] [5]

In 2017, Twenge wrote an article in The Atlantic asking "Have smartphones destroyed a generation?" which presented findings from her book iGen. [15]

Criticism

Jeffrey Arnett of Clark University was critical of Twenge's research on narcissism among young people. Speaking to The New York Times in 2013, he stated: "I think she is vastly misinterpreting or over-interpreting the data, and I think it's destructive." He added that Twenge's conclusions on narcissism among young people were not backed up by statistical analysis of teen behaviour, and further criticized her reliance on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI), which Arnett claims is inherently flawed at measuring narcissism. [20] Twenge responded to this criticism by declaring that the NPI "is employed in 77% of studies of narcissistic traits" and "is also the best self-report predictor of narcissistic traits derived from clinical interviews". She also stated that "documenting trends in young people's self-reported traits and attitudes is empirical research, not a complaint or a stereotype". [21]

Sarah Rose Cavanagh in Psychology Today disagreed with Twenge's negative view of the impact of smartphones—as outlined in her book, iGen—arguing that Twenge had ignored data supporting positive findings, presented correlation as causation, over-generalized and not taken social contexts into account. [22] Twenge responded to Cavanagh in the same publication, citing a meta-analysis and controlled experiments in support of her theories, and stating that her article and book had also highlighted positive trends. She also denied that she was outright opposed to technology: "Smartphone or internet use of up to an hour or two a day is not linked with mental health issues or unhappiness ... It's two hours a day and beyond that that's the issue." [23]

Publications

Twenge's publications [1] [24] include:

References

  1. ^ a b c d Jean Twenge publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Jean Twenge at Library of Congress
  3. ^ "Jean M. Twenge Ph.D." Psychology Today. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  4. ^ www.jeantwenge.com Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ a b "Jean Twenge Faculty page at San Diego State University". sdsu.edu.
  6. ^ Schawbel, Dan. "Jean Twenge: What Employers Need To Know About iGen". Forbes. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
  7. ^ Campbell, Stacy M.; Twenge, Jean M.; Campbell, W. Keith (April 1, 2017). "Fuzzy But Useful Constructs: Making Sense of the Differences Between Generations". Work, Aging and Retirement. 3 (2): 130–139. doi: 10.1093/workar/wax001. ISSN  2054-4642.
  8. ^ Twenge, J. M. (2012). "Generational differences in young adults' life goals, concern for others, and civic orientation, 1966-2009" (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 102 (5): 1045–1062. doi: 10.1037/a0027408. PMID  22390226.
  9. ^ Twenge, Jean M.; Park, Heejung (2017). "The Decline in Adult Activities Among U.S. Adolescents, 1976–2016". Child Development. 90 (2): 638–654. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12930. ISSN  1467-8624. PMID  28925063.
  10. ^ Twenge, Jean M.; Sherman, Ryne A.; Wells, Brooke E. (February 1, 2017). "Sexual Inactivity During Young Adulthood Is More Common Among U.S. Millennials and iGen: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Having No Sexual Partners After Age 18". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 46 (2): 433–440. doi: 10.1007/s10508-016-0798-z. ISSN  0004-0002. PMID  27480753. S2CID  207092404.
  11. ^ Twenge, Jean M.; Exline, Julie J.; Grubbs, Joshua B.; Sastry, Ramya; Campbell, W. Keith (May 11, 2015). "Generational and Time Period Differences in American Adolescents' Religious Orientation, 1966–2014". PLOS ONE. 10 (5): e0121454. Bibcode: 2015PLoSO..1021454T. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121454. ISSN  1932-6203. PMC  4427319. PMID  25962174.
  12. ^ a b Twenge, Jean (2018). iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. New York: Atria Publishing Group. ISBN  978-1501152016.
  13. ^ a b Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before (Revised ed.). New York: Atria Publishing Group. 2014. ISBN  978-1476755564.
  14. ^ a b Twenge, Jean; Campbell, W. Keith (2010). The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. New York: Atria Publishing Group. ISBN  978-1416575993.
  15. ^ a b Twenge, Jean M. (August 3, 2017). "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?". theatlantic.com. The Atlantic. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
  16. ^ Denizet-Lewis, Benoit (October 11, 2017). "Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?". The New York Times. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  17. ^ Twenge, Jean M.; VanLandingham, Hannah; Campbell, W. Keith (August 3, 2017). "The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television: Increases in the Use of Swear Words in American Books, 1950-2008". SAGE Open. 7 (3): 215824401772368. doi: 10.1177/2158244017723689.
  18. ^ Alison Flood (August 8, 2017). "Shocking figures: US academics find 'dramatic' growth of swearing in books". The Guardian.
  19. ^ Twenge, Jean Marie (1998). Assertiveness, sociability, and anxiety: a cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1928-1993. umich.edu (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. hdl: 2027.42/131113. OCLC  714661433. ProQuest  304444254.
  20. ^ Quenqua, Douglas (August 5, 2013). "Seeing Narcissists Everywhere". The New York Times. ISSN  0362-4331. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  21. ^ Jean M. Twenge (March 1, 2013). "Overwhelming Evidence for Generation Me: A Reply to Arnett". Emerging Adulthood. 1 (1): 21–26. doi: 10.1177/2167696812468112. ISSN  2167-6968. S2CID  144599650.
  22. ^ Cavanagh, Sarah Rose (August 6, 2017). "No, Smartphones are Not Destroying a Generation". psychologytoday.com. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
  23. ^ Twenge, Jean (2017). "Making iGen's Mental Health Issues Disappear". Psychology Today. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  24. ^ Jean Twenge publications from Europe PubMed Central
  25. ^ Twenge, Jean; Myers, David G. (2012). Social Psychology (13th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN  978-1260085280.
  26. ^ Twenge, Jean; Campbell, W. Keith (2016). Personality Psychology: Understanding Yourself and Others. Pearson Education. ISBN  978-0205917426.
  27. ^ Twenge, Jean (2017). The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant. New York: Atria Publishing Group. ISBN  978-1451620702.
  28. ^ Twenge, Jean M. (April 25, 2023). Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future. Simon and Schuster. ISBN  978-1-9821-8161-1.

External links

Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Jean_Twenge&oldid=1211913022"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jean Twenge
blurry, distant photo of Jean Twenge wearing a navy blue blazer, standing with arms crossed in front of her body
Twenge in 2018
Born
Jean Marie Twenge

(1971-08-24) August 24, 1971 (age 52) [2]
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for iGen
Children3 [3]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions San Diego State University
Thesis Assertiveness, sociability, and anxiety: a cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1928–1993 (1998)
Website www.jeantwenge.com Edit this at Wikidata

Jean Marie Twenge (born August 24, 1971) [2] is an American psychologist researching generational differences, including work values, life goals, and speed of development. She is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, [4] [5] [1] author, consultant, and public speaker. [6] She has examined generational differences in work attitudes, [7] life goals, [8] developmental speed, [9] sexual behavior, [10] and religious commitment. [11]

She is also known for her books iGen, [12] Generation Me [13] and The Narcissism Epidemic. [14] In the September 2017 issue of The Atlantic, Twenge argued that smartphones were the most likely cause behind the sudden increases in mental health issues among teens after 2012. [15] [16] Twenge co-authored a 2017 corpus linguistics analysis that said that George Carlin's " seven dirty words you can't say on television" were used 28 times more frequently in 2008 than in 1950 in the texts at Google Books. Twenge said the increase is due to the dominance of self over social conventions. [17] [18]

Education

Twenge was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan where she was awarded a PhD in 1998 for a meta-analysis of assertiveness, sociability and anxiety. [19]

Career and research

Twenge's research investigates issues around generations, personality, social psychology and gender roles. [1] [5]

In 2017, Twenge wrote an article in The Atlantic asking "Have smartphones destroyed a generation?" which presented findings from her book iGen. [15]

Criticism

Jeffrey Arnett of Clark University was critical of Twenge's research on narcissism among young people. Speaking to The New York Times in 2013, he stated: "I think she is vastly misinterpreting or over-interpreting the data, and I think it's destructive." He added that Twenge's conclusions on narcissism among young people were not backed up by statistical analysis of teen behaviour, and further criticized her reliance on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI), which Arnett claims is inherently flawed at measuring narcissism. [20] Twenge responded to this criticism by declaring that the NPI "is employed in 77% of studies of narcissistic traits" and "is also the best self-report predictor of narcissistic traits derived from clinical interviews". She also stated that "documenting trends in young people's self-reported traits and attitudes is empirical research, not a complaint or a stereotype". [21]

Sarah Rose Cavanagh in Psychology Today disagreed with Twenge's negative view of the impact of smartphones—as outlined in her book, iGen—arguing that Twenge had ignored data supporting positive findings, presented correlation as causation, over-generalized and not taken social contexts into account. [22] Twenge responded to Cavanagh in the same publication, citing a meta-analysis and controlled experiments in support of her theories, and stating that her article and book had also highlighted positive trends. She also denied that she was outright opposed to technology: "Smartphone or internet use of up to an hour or two a day is not linked with mental health issues or unhappiness ... It's two hours a day and beyond that that's the issue." [23]

Publications

Twenge's publications [1] [24] include:

References

  1. ^ a b c d Jean Twenge publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Jean Twenge at Library of Congress
  3. ^ "Jean M. Twenge Ph.D." Psychology Today. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  4. ^ www.jeantwenge.com Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ a b "Jean Twenge Faculty page at San Diego State University". sdsu.edu.
  6. ^ Schawbel, Dan. "Jean Twenge: What Employers Need To Know About iGen". Forbes. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
  7. ^ Campbell, Stacy M.; Twenge, Jean M.; Campbell, W. Keith (April 1, 2017). "Fuzzy But Useful Constructs: Making Sense of the Differences Between Generations". Work, Aging and Retirement. 3 (2): 130–139. doi: 10.1093/workar/wax001. ISSN  2054-4642.
  8. ^ Twenge, J. M. (2012). "Generational differences in young adults' life goals, concern for others, and civic orientation, 1966-2009" (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 102 (5): 1045–1062. doi: 10.1037/a0027408. PMID  22390226.
  9. ^ Twenge, Jean M.; Park, Heejung (2017). "The Decline in Adult Activities Among U.S. Adolescents, 1976–2016". Child Development. 90 (2): 638–654. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12930. ISSN  1467-8624. PMID  28925063.
  10. ^ Twenge, Jean M.; Sherman, Ryne A.; Wells, Brooke E. (February 1, 2017). "Sexual Inactivity During Young Adulthood Is More Common Among U.S. Millennials and iGen: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Having No Sexual Partners After Age 18". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 46 (2): 433–440. doi: 10.1007/s10508-016-0798-z. ISSN  0004-0002. PMID  27480753. S2CID  207092404.
  11. ^ Twenge, Jean M.; Exline, Julie J.; Grubbs, Joshua B.; Sastry, Ramya; Campbell, W. Keith (May 11, 2015). "Generational and Time Period Differences in American Adolescents' Religious Orientation, 1966–2014". PLOS ONE. 10 (5): e0121454. Bibcode: 2015PLoSO..1021454T. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121454. ISSN  1932-6203. PMC  4427319. PMID  25962174.
  12. ^ a b Twenge, Jean (2018). iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. New York: Atria Publishing Group. ISBN  978-1501152016.
  13. ^ a b Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before (Revised ed.). New York: Atria Publishing Group. 2014. ISBN  978-1476755564.
  14. ^ a b Twenge, Jean; Campbell, W. Keith (2010). The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. New York: Atria Publishing Group. ISBN  978-1416575993.
  15. ^ a b Twenge, Jean M. (August 3, 2017). "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?". theatlantic.com. The Atlantic. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
  16. ^ Denizet-Lewis, Benoit (October 11, 2017). "Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?". The New York Times. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  17. ^ Twenge, Jean M.; VanLandingham, Hannah; Campbell, W. Keith (August 3, 2017). "The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television: Increases in the Use of Swear Words in American Books, 1950-2008". SAGE Open. 7 (3): 215824401772368. doi: 10.1177/2158244017723689.
  18. ^ Alison Flood (August 8, 2017). "Shocking figures: US academics find 'dramatic' growth of swearing in books". The Guardian.
  19. ^ Twenge, Jean Marie (1998). Assertiveness, sociability, and anxiety: a cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1928-1993. umich.edu (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. hdl: 2027.42/131113. OCLC  714661433. ProQuest  304444254.
  20. ^ Quenqua, Douglas (August 5, 2013). "Seeing Narcissists Everywhere". The New York Times. ISSN  0362-4331. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  21. ^ Jean M. Twenge (March 1, 2013). "Overwhelming Evidence for Generation Me: A Reply to Arnett". Emerging Adulthood. 1 (1): 21–26. doi: 10.1177/2167696812468112. ISSN  2167-6968. S2CID  144599650.
  22. ^ Cavanagh, Sarah Rose (August 6, 2017). "No, Smartphones are Not Destroying a Generation". psychologytoday.com. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
  23. ^ Twenge, Jean (2017). "Making iGen's Mental Health Issues Disappear". Psychology Today. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  24. ^ Jean Twenge publications from Europe PubMed Central
  25. ^ Twenge, Jean; Myers, David G. (2012). Social Psychology (13th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN  978-1260085280.
  26. ^ Twenge, Jean; Campbell, W. Keith (2016). Personality Psychology: Understanding Yourself and Others. Pearson Education. ISBN  978-0205917426.
  27. ^ Twenge, Jean (2017). The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant. New York: Atria Publishing Group. ISBN  978-1451620702.
  28. ^ Twenge, Jean M. (April 25, 2023). Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future. Simon and Schuster. ISBN  978-1-9821-8161-1.

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