How did you arrive at your research question?
- I arrived at my research question because I’ve seen the obesity rates of this country grow rapidly. Whether it’s the transition from a mainly agricultural environment to a more technical one, the plethora of fast food restaurants or the lack of social skills; our society is slowly killing itself with obesity related illnesses.
What is it that interests you?
- Being someone that’s concerned with my weight issues and someone that comes from a morbidly obese family, I’m very interested in this topic. I’m interested to see how the Baby Boomers transition was different than the Gen Me, and whether Gen Me is going to learn from the previous generation or continue down the same self-destructive path.
What do you wish to explore and why?
- The areas I plan to explore are; self-esteem issues related to morbid obesity between the Baby Boomers and Gen Me and the food choices and work habits between the two generations. In Gen Me, Twenge discusses the self-esteem issues for the Gen Me population, but she never mentions the obesity issues with the generation. She also discusses how body improvement procedures are at an all time high, for the Gen Me population. With that observation, I’m going to conclude that obesity plays a huge role in the lack of self-esteem with the Gen Me population. The Baby Boomers either didn’t care about their looks as much as the Gen Me population does, or they had more physically demanding jobs or careers, compared to the technical environment that most of the Gen Me population are going to go into.
