Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--And More Miserable Than Ever Before Twenge Jean M. Paperback

In this provocative and newly revised book, headline-making psychologist Dr. The children of the Baby Boomers are not only feeling the effects of the recession and the changing job market--they are affecting change the world over. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she calls "Generation Me" are tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also disengaged, narcissistic, distrustful, and anxious.Born in the '80s, and '90s and called "The Entitlement Generation" or Millennials, they are reshaping schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country.

Twenge incorporates the latest research, data, and statistics, as well as new stories and cultural references, to show how "Gen Me-ers" have shifted the American character, redefining what it means to be an individual in today's society.Dr. Now, in this new edition of Generation Me, Dr. Twenge uses data from 11