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

by Jean M. Twenge

7. Did you fight with your parents a lot when you were a teen? ______ 8. Were more than one-third of the other students at your high school a different race than you? ______ 9. When you were in high school, did you spend nearly every weekend night out with your friends? _____ 10. Did you have a job during the school year when you were in high school? _____ 11. Do you agree that safe spaces and trigger warnings are good ideas and that efforts should be made to reduce microaggressions? _____ 12. Are you a political independent? _____ 13. Do you support the legalization of marijuana? _____ 14. Is having sex without much emotion involved desirable? _____ 15. When you were in high school, did you feel left out and lonely fairly often? SCORING: Give yourself 1 point for answering “yes” to questions 1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. Give yourself 1 point for answering “no” to questions 3, 4, 6, 7,