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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Exploring the Possibility of Peak Individualism, Humanity's Existential Crisis, and an Emerging Age of Purpose
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, September 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01478 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gabriel B. Grant |
| Abstract |
There is an emerging cultural narrative in the United States that we are entering an age of purpose-that millennials, more than any other generation, are searching for purpose and purposeful work (Sheahan, 2005) and that we are entering an era or economy of purpose (Hurst, 2014). For profit, non-profit, and educational institutions are perceiving and adapting to serve millennials' demand for purpose in life, specifically within the workplace (Klein et al., 2015). Yet, longitudinal studies of purpose do not exist, and millennials are also referred to as GenMe. Existing quantitative research suggests they (we) are increasingly individualistic, materialistic, and narcissistic (Greenfield, 2013). Google's digitization of millions of books and the Ngram Viewer allow for quantified analysis of culture over the past two centuries. This tool was used to quantitatively test the popular notion that there is a rise in demand for purpose. Analysis reveals a growing interest in purpose-in-life and a shift toward collectivistic values emerging over the lifespan of the millennial generation. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 30% |
| Australia | 1 | 10% |
| Chile | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 5 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 80% |
| Scientists | 1 | 10% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 76 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 76 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 9 | 12% |
| Unknown | 27 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting | 15 | 20% |
| Psychology | 10 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 8% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Unknown | 30 | 39% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 September 2023.
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#1,912,964
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#3,923
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#35,426
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#98
of 602 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 34,991 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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