How can we best understand and engage younger generations today?

Our guest, Dr. Jean Twangi, professor of psychology at San Diego State University,

author of a brand new book called Generation,

Subtitled The Real Difference Between Gen Z, millennials, author of a brand new book called Generation,

Subtitled The Real Difference Between Gen Z,

millennials, Gen X, Boomers in Silence

and what they mean for America's future.

She has been our go-to person on generational trends and today we're going to look at

particularly the research on Gen Z what that means for pastors, parents and others who

care about understanding and mentoring the next generation.

I'm your host Scott Ray and this is Think Biblically, a podcast from Table School of Theology

at viola University.

Dr Twengue, thank you so much for joining us. We're really looking forward to our conversation.

Thank you.

So tell me, how did you get so interested in this particular academic specialty?

What, why are you so passionate about understanding of these generational trends?

You know, it all started when I was an undergraduate and I was working on my honors thesis and found that my peers were scoring very differently on a psychological questionnaire than college students had 20 years before that.

And realized it made sense, maybe there were some generational differences.

Wouldn't found other people had used the scale and found sure enough there was a progressive change over time in these traits.

And that was in the early 90s, It was right around the time that the media had discovered Generation X.

And there were a lot of books and articles written about that generation, which is my own.

But so many of them weren't actually based on data.

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