#127 Jean Twenge, Ph.D, Author, iGen: Super Connected Kids Are Less Happy. Why?
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
5 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Jean Twenge, Ph.D, Author, iGen: Super Connected Kids Are Less Happy. Why?
The Not Old Better Show, Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, I’m your host, Paul Vogelzang.
A new book details the dramatic effects digital devices can have on today's tech-savvy kids. It's called, "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,” from Simon & Schuster.
Our guest today, author of the book, Dr Jean Twenge, talks about all that, what it means to The Not Old Better audience, and where the name she coined, iGen.
Fascinating.
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| 0:00.0 | Play 0-1-9der, 2 miles northeast from 19- |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show and your host Paul Volk |
| 0:04.2 | saying. |
| 0:09.1 | A new book details the dramatic effects digital devices can have on today's tech savvy kids. |
| 0:15.9 | The book titled, IGen Why Today's Super Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellion, Less Happy. connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy, and completely |
| 0:26.1 | unprepared for adulthood and what that means to the rest of us is from Simon and |
| 0:30.5 | Schuster and is by our guest today, Dr. Gene Twenke. |
| 0:34.0 | Dr Twenke joins us to talk about all of that, what it means to the not old better audience, |
| 0:39.0 | and where the name she coined, Igen, comes from... |
| 0:42.0 | Igen is the generation born between 1995 and 2012. |
| 0:49.0 | They are the first generation to spend their entire adolescence with smartphones. |
| 0:55.0 | Thus, the label Igen, like iPads and iPhones. |
| 1:00.0 | Two-thirds of them have an iPhone, almost all of them have a smartphone, and given how smartphones have shaped |
| 1:06.6 | them, Igen seems to fit. |
| 1:09.1 | That of course is our guest today, Dr. Gene Twangi. Please welcome to the Not Old Better show, Dr. |
| 1:15.2 | Jean Twangi. |
| 1:16.2 | Well, Dr. Twangi, welcome to the show. |
| 1:18.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:19.6 | Let's get into this. |
| 1:20.5 | You're quoted as saying it's not an exaggeration to describe what the I-GEN group is almost |
| 1:26.6 | on the brink of the worst mental health crisis in decades. |
| 1:30.0 | Why is I-GEN in such a crisis? |
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