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This generation wants more everything, study finds | This generation wants more everything, study finds |
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Young people want more sex, relationships, jobs, travels, houses and friends, a study has found, showing how the pace of life has increased and attention spans have diminished. | Young people want more sex, relationships, jobs, travels, houses and friends, a study has found, showing how the pace of life has increased and attention spans have diminished. |
Younger people are likely to have 33% more relationships and twice as many sexual partners before marriage as their parents. | Younger people are likely to have 33% more relationships and twice as many sexual partners before marriage as their parents. |
They are also less concerned with finding "the one". A third of 25-year-olds do not expect to find a 'life partner', with two thirds claiming that for their generation there is no stigma around getting divorced. | |
2000 people were surveyed by Samsung Galaxy S6 edge, split between 12-25 year-olds and those over 50, the results amounting to what it declared a "YOLO culture" (ugh). | |
The younger generation are more likely to change jobs, with one in five (21%) expecting to change employer ten times or more over the course of their working lives compared with 13% of those aged over 50, feel less rooted to their home towns and are far more likely to be open to a move abroad (68%) than the older generation (31%) and have a greater wanderlust than their parents, expecting to visit at least 16 different countries during their lifetime, compared with the over 50s who have only visited 10. | The younger generation are more likely to change jobs, with one in five (21%) expecting to change employer ten times or more over the course of their working lives compared with 13% of those aged over 50, feel less rooted to their home towns and are far more likely to be open to a move abroad (68%) than the older generation (31%) and have a greater wanderlust than their parents, expecting to visit at least 16 different countries during their lifetime, compared with the over 50s who have only visited 10. |
While apps like Tinder might be having an effect on sexual appetite, Facebook, Twitter etc is boosting our circles of friends. | While apps like Tinder might be having an effect on sexual appetite, Facebook, Twitter etc is boosting our circles of friends. |
The study also revealed that young people may have way more 'contacts' (113 compared with 33), though interestingly their parents will have a greater number of lifelong friends, saying something about our increasingly shallow approach to 'friendship'. | The study also revealed that young people may have way more 'contacts' (113 compared with 33), though interestingly their parents will have a greater number of lifelong friends, saying something about our increasingly shallow approach to 'friendship'. |
"This study shows the sheer speed of social evolution as within just one generation we have moved from stick to switch," commented Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology & Health at the University of Manchester and President of RELATE. | "This study shows the sheer speed of social evolution as within just one generation we have moved from stick to switch," commented Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology & Health at the University of Manchester and President of RELATE. |
"For today’s twenty-somethings it is goodbye job for life, marrying your teenage sweetheart and putting down roots in your own bought home, and hello portfolio career, Tinder-style dating and generation swipe." | "For today’s twenty-somethings it is goodbye job for life, marrying your teenage sweetheart and putting down roots in your own bought home, and hello portfolio career, Tinder-style dating and generation swipe." |
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