Since the millennials, the factors that Sinek links to millennials have only become more decisive for young people. Parents no longer stop at just praising them. They have also become so protective that Danish psychologist Bent Hougaard calls them 'curling parents'. Social media has become even more important in the lives of young people: young people come into contact with it at a younger age and spend twice as much time online than millennials did when they were young. And the world has only become faster.
Does this mean that young people in Generation F have become even more narcissistic, even more convinced of themselves and their right to success, even more materialistic, even lazier and even less focused? Once again, it is researcher Jean Twenge who investigated this and wrote down her findings in her book iGen (aff.). To start with, according to Twenge, the attention span of young people has indeed become even shorter. Generation F-ers switch online activities every nineteen seconds. More than three quarters of young people close the online pages they open within a minute.
These young people are also just as materialistic malaysia phone number list as millennials and, like millennials, expect to have a better life than their parents. They, like millennials, are cynical towards authorities such as churches, government, educational institutions, corporate companies, established political parties and the media. And they are tolerant towards people of any sexual preference and towards people with a different ethnic background than their own.
Differences with millennials
Unlike millennials, Gen F-ers do not think that they can automatically achieve everything they want in life. They have much less of the feeling that they can determine for themselves whether they will be successful. In their perception, their fate is more in the hands of others than of themselves, Twenge concludes. According to Twenge, Gen F-ers are also less satisfied with their lives. They suffer much more from depression and they feel isolated. They are lonelier and think about suicide more often, they seek professional psychological help more often.
In addition, Generation F-ers describe themselves as more politically right-wing and value the traditional division of roles between men and women more. They are tolerant of multiculturalism, but a society in which people of different ethnic origins live together is not their preference.