The age of anxiety? Birth cohort change in anxiety and neuroticism, 1952-1993.

By Jean M. Twenge. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Can Coloring Mandalas Reduce Anxiety? (2005, background): “, 1994), and anxiety levels have increased significantly over the last half of the 20th century (Twenge, 2000).”
Doing the right thing: Measuring wellbeing for public policy (2011, background): “In contrast, rates of depression and anxiety have increased dramatically (Klerman et al., 1985; Robins et al., 1984; Twenge, 2000).”
From Helplessness to Optimism: The Role of Resilience in Treating and Preventing Depression in Youth (2013, background): “In addition, several studies indicate that rates of depression and anxiety have increased dramatically over the past 50 years (Klerman et al., 1985 ; Twenge, 2000 ) , so that young people today are much more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety than their parents or grandparents were.”
The decline of play and the rise of psychopathology in children and adolescents. (2011, background): “Twenge and her colleagues have analyzed the scores obtained from many samples of young people in the United States over the decades on all of these tests.(14) The results of the analyses are remarkably consistent.”
Egos inflating over time: a cross-temporal meta-analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. (2008, methodology): “In addition, four previous metaanalyses found very similar patterns of birth cohort changes in college student and child samples (Twenge, 2000, 2001b; Twenge & Im, 2007; Twenge et al., 2004).”
Mental Illness and Mental Health: The Two Continua Model Across the Lifespan (2009, background): “A meta-analysis has also shown that anxiety is more prevalent in more recent cohorts of young adults (Twenge 2000).”
Gender Differences in Domain-Specific Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis (2009, positive): “Two meta-analyses found that women score higher in anxiety than men do, with an effect size around d 0.24 (Feingold, 1994; Twenge, 2000).”
A Five-Factor Theory Perspective (2002, methodology): “Recently Twenge (2000) reported a remarkable result: She collected all the studies she could find of students given standard tests of anxiety or Neuroticism between 1952 and 1993, and plotted mean values by year.”
Generational Differences in Work-Related Attitudes: A Meta-analysis (2012, positive): “…in domains as diverse as work values (Smola and Sutton 2002), learning orientation (D’Amato and Herzfeldt 2008), the use of influence tactics (Landry 2009), anxiety and neuroticism (Twenge 2000), depression among children (Twenge and Nolen-Hoeksema 2002), and narcissism (Trzesniewski et al. 2008).”
Age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, and birth cohort differences on the children's depression inventory: a meta-analysis. (2002, methodology): “When used previously by one of us (Twenge, 1997a, 1997b, 2000, 2001a, 2001b), within-scale meta-analysis has been called cross-temporal meta-analysis (because the main variable of interest in previous studies was birth cohort or change over time).”
Generational differences in psychological traits and their impact on the workplace (2008, methodology): “These studies employ a unique method one of us has labeled cross-temporal meta-analysis (Twenge, 2000).”
Development of personality in early and middle adulthood: set like plaster or persistent change? (2003, background): “Neuroticism (Twenge, 2000) and Extraversion (Twenge, 2001).”
Generational differences at work: introduction and overview (2008, background): “Of particular significance to the generational approach are major shifts in the sociocultural environment over time; highly salient events that one generation experiences but another either does not, or experiences them outside of their critical socialisation years (Noble and Schewe, 2003; O’Guinn a”
Age and Birth Cohort Differences in Self-Esteem: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis (2001, background): “suicide rates rose, and depression and anxiety increased (Klerman & Weissman, 1989; Lewinsohn et al., 1993; Schubert & Wagner, 1975; Twenge, 2000).”