{"id":13244,"date":"2024-09-11T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2024-09-11T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:26:39","slug":"research-knowing-and-believing-in-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13244","title":{"rendered":"Research: Knowing and Believing in the Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Young Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you think of when you think of Gen Z? In 2023, The RELATE Project investigated relationships, sense of belonging, identity, agency, and beliefs among 7,261 adolescents aged 13 to 24. This study involved surveys and focus groups conducted in various regions, including 1,994 participants in the United States, 1,004 in the United Kingdom, 1,768 in Mexico, 997 in India, 627 in Kenya, 447 in Uganda, 413 in Ethiopia, and 11 in Tanzania, thus covering a representative sample from Eastern Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among their findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>More than 40% of Gen Z doesn\u2019t feel worthy of being loved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mental health is a concern for more than 40% of Gen Z.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More than 33% of Gen Z turns to social media when they\u2019re feeling anxious.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Half of teens and young adults are stressed by school and finances.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gen Z wants to be known as kind and good\u2014earning the moniker \u201cThe Empathetic Generation.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Their belief in a higher power actually strengthens with age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/relate.younglife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the report, follow links to media coverage, and more on the Young Life website<\/a>. The report includes helpful advice addressing questions like, \u201cHow can you deepen your relationship with a young adult in your life?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a taste, read <a href=\"https:\/\/fulleryouthinstitute.org\/blog\/connecting-with-the-next-generation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Connecting with the Next Generation: Insights from Young Life\u2019s RELATE Project<\/a> (Fuller Youth Institute).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see how these issues relate specifically to mobilizing a new generation to serve in missions, read <a href=\"https:\/\/missionbooks.org\/products\/mobilizing-gen-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mobilizing Gen Z: Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Age of Missions<\/a>, by Jolene Erlacher and Katy White.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gen Z &amp; Young Life | The RELATE Project 2024\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g37UhSOcsWk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Young Life What do you think of when you think of Gen Z? In 2023, The RELATE Project investigated relationships, sense of belonging, identity, agency, and beliefs among 7,261 adolescents aged 13 to 24. This study involved surveys and focus groups conducted in various regions, including 1,994 participants in the United States, 1,004 in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research: Knowing and Believing in the Next Generation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-mobilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13245,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}