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Millennials less trusting than Gen X was
CHICAGO (AP) They're often Mont Blanc Australia Melbourne pegged as the civic minded, do gooding generation. But while they're still optimistic about their own personal prospects, a new study finds that today's youth are often more skeptical of the country's institutions than the young generations that preceded them.
The Millennials also are as mistrusting of other people as the gloomy "slackers" of Generation X were 20 years ago or even more so.
The researchers also found that Millennials' approval of major institutions from Congress and corporations to the news media and educational and religious Women Polo T Shirts institutions dropped more sharply than other generations in the decade that followed the terrorist attacks Christian Louboutin Wedding Shoes of Sept. 11, 2001.
"Young people today feel disconnected and alienated," says Twenge, a psychologist and professor at San Diego State University, who wrote a book on Millennials called "Generation Me." She finds these outcomes "especially distressing" for a generation that had been expected to be more trusting of Cheap Ray Ban Frames Australia government.
Young people, even those from differing backgrounds, say the findings ring true.
"I do not trust the government as far I can throw a car, which is not very far at all," says Steve McGlinchey, a 21 year old who lives in Burton, Michigan, outside Flint, and works for a company that installs industrial furnaces for auto companies and other businesses.
Like a lot of young people, he says he's been disappointed by people in positions of power who've abused that power or seem to have forgotten about the little guy.
That includes Wall Street. She also has doubts about her city's leaders, having watched them close dozens of public schools in low income neighborhoods, even as they pour millions of dollars into flashy downtown parks and other projects.
"They don't seem like they have our best interest at heart," Nwachukwu says.
While Americans of all ages had growing trust issues in recent years, the researchers found that young people's trust dropped more steeply in several categories.
For instance, in 2000 2002, 49 percent of 12th graders who were surveyed said Congress was doing a "good" or "very good" job, compared with just 22 percent who said the same in 2010 12. Thirty percent of young boomers were approving in the mid 1970s, and 33 percent of Gen Xers in early 1990s.
The researchers used these figures in three year blocks to assure they were comparing consistent trends. The margin of error is plus or minus 1 percentage point.
In 2000 2002, 54 percent of 12th graders approved of the job large corporations were doing. That fell to 33 percent by 2010 12. Forty percent of boomers approved in the mid 1970s, and 48 percent of Gen Xers in the early 1990s.
During that decade, Millennials also had notable drops in approval of colleges and universities, the news media, public schools and religious institutions.
Because the study found that people of all age groups have trust and confidence issues, Twenge notes that the results are more likely tied to current events than the generation itself.
Last year, an AP GfK poll also found that only a third of all Americans said they trusted most people, compared with about half who said the same the early 1970s, according to the General Social Survey.
But the survey also showed that each generation has started off adulthood less trusting than the previous one, a trend that would likely have to be reversed for the nation's overall mistrust to change.
Katherine Vining, a 25 year old graduate student in San Francisco, says that may be difficult to do in an age when news and information are readily accessible at any hour.
"The more information you have, the more opportunity there Buy Mbt Shoes Australia is to be disappointed and disillusioned by the people and institutions in the Supra Womens Australia world that are repeatedly acting unethically and taking advantage of individuals and communities," says Vining, who's studying sustainable management at the Presidio Graduate School.
But, she adds, being more connected also makes it easier to find others "who are equally disheartened with the status quo." And with that, she and others say, comes empowerment to do something about it.
That's what some experts find so interesting about this generation. They may be disillusioned by the powers that be. Yet so far, they've continued to vote in larger percentages than previous young generations, even after some Mont Blanc Pens Australia Online concede that they've failed to see the "change" that President Barack Obama first promised in 2008.
And despite their skepticism, they also continue to be a largely optimistic lot.
A Pew Research Center survey done in 2012 found that 73 percent of 18 to 34 year olds were optimistic that they would eventually achieve their life goals, or had already achieved them.
Jon Rogowski, Mont Blanc Starwalker a political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, has worried that, given these findings about trust, some young people will tire and "turn inwards" and away from civic engagement. He's particularly concerned about black youth.
A recent survey by the University of Chicago's Black Youth Project, to which Rogowski contributes, found that nearly 46 percent of black youth believe everyone has an equal chance to succeed in the United States, compared with 51 percent of white youth and about 58 percent of Hispanic youth.
Nwachukwu, the 16 year old Chicagoan, who is African American, understands that concern, yet still feels hopeful.
