https://www.seeker.com/culture/behavior/...ey-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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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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