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US Teens Are Growing Up More Slowly Than They Used To - C C - Sep 21, 2017
https://www.seeker.com/culture/behavior/us-teens-are-growing-up-more-slowly-than-they-used-to
EXCERPT: [...] “I’d seen trend pieces characterizing these trends as meaning teens were more ‘virtuous,’ when talking about declines in sex or alcohol, or that teens were ‘lazy’ when talking about declines in working,” Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, told Seeker. “But I thought both of those missed the big picture — that teens were taking longer to grow up.”
[...] The study, published in the journal Child Development, found that adolescents in the present decade are less likely to engage in such adult behaviors, which are mostly tied to independence from parental figures. The trend appeared across all demographic groups, and supports Twenge’s speculation that teens are growing up more slowly than their counterparts from previous decades did. “I would not describe youths as ‘more immature,’” she said. “That doesn’t fit the larger pattern of the data. Is it more or less mature to have sex or drink alcohol in high school? It’s neither."
Delayed development throughout the animal kingdom is usually associated with greater time for education, with humans gaining much of this in school. Less schooling does not necessarily mean less learning overall, however. [...] “Whether they are actually learning more is a question we can’t answer with this data,” she noted....
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RE: US Teens Are Growing Up More Slowly Than They Used To - RainbowUnicorn - Sep 21, 2017
(Sep 21, 2017 03:13 AM)C C Wrote: https://www.seeker.com/culture/behavior/us-teens-are-growing-up-more-slowly-than-they-used-to
EXCERPT: [...] “I’d seen trend pieces characterizing these trends as meaning teens were more ‘virtuous,’ when talking about declines in sex or alcohol, or that teens were ‘lazy’ when talking about declines in working,” Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, told Seeker. “But I thought both of those missed the big picture — that teens were taking longer to grow up.”
[...] The study, published in the journal Child Development, found that adolescents in the present decade are less likely to engage in such adult behaviors, which are mostly tied to independence from parental figures. The trend appeared across all demographic groups, and supports Twenge’s speculation that teens are growing up more slowly than their counterparts from previous decades did. “I would not describe youths as ‘more immature,’” she said. “That doesn’t fit the larger pattern of the data. Is it more or less mature to have sex or drink alcohol in high school? It’s neither."
Delayed development throughout the animal kingdom is usually associated with greater time for education, with humans gaining much of this in school. Less schooling does not necessarily mean less learning overall, however. [...] “Whether they are actually learning more is a question we can’t answer with this data,” she noted....
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where is the base line ?
employment Vs study ? (staying in school 1 extra year skews the data?)
1st job
living away from home
living independantly
income Vs cost balance of affordability
education level & attainment
legal adult age limits have not been reduced for US teenagers since the baby boomers ?
how does marriage divorce & seperation factor in to living arrangements for older children ?
now... add up all the people studying at university/colleges. then add them to the unemployment numbers.
see how that shows the real job availbility compared to historic data from baby boomers(the parent generation)
add the cost of university/college to the cost of living plus the loss of income from not having a job for those years.
then add that to the total cost.
divide that by the mode average wage. divide that by 35 hours per week per year and then define the actual cost of living increase.
subtract all internships as a percentage from the year range of high school to end of college as a fiscal value to the total sum of cost of living & real unemployment rate.
then add emotional intelligence median & mode average highest score to age.
cross reference social connectivity as a factor of modality of social function as a numerical representation of maturity to socialise diversly & independantly.
then match sexual health, & voter participation with general knowledge of international social & cultural norms
that should probably do it.
that should give a depth range to attainable average to measure quantifiable non variable factors of terms of reference.
obviousely cultural deviations like US education being very xenophobic should probably be adjusted for.