The TruerAnswers capability of Copeify reveals real time insights into young adults attitudes. We capture attitudes and assumptions, views and voices in the flow of mobile and the authenticity of anonymous answers.
These are just some of the highlights and reflect the type of TruerAnswers your organization can activate in real time.
Character is not easy for young people to comprehend. They hear it from their parents, relatives, teachers, coaches, even social media influencers, but can often confuse it with personality. What they do understand about Character is likely to be binary. Either somebody has it or they do not. However character, unlike personality which is largely hereditary and immutable, is malleable. Character traits are based on beliefs (iehonesty, hope, and humility). Psychology Today printed a great article back in April 2011 titled Personality vs. Character (Alex Lickerman, M.D.) supporting our results that although young people are unlikely to be able to distinguish between the two the results of our character surveys suggest they believe the foundation of good deeds begins with character. By growing character will not only make me a better person, but will help to make those around me better.
TruerAnswers shows some interesting insights:
When we surveyed students in the areas of challenges, commitment, and effort we saw mixed results in the area of personal development. We bucketed these survey results keying in on the homographs content and content.
Content (ken’tent) – whether adjective, verb, or noun the definition is the state of happiness or satisfaction.
Content (kahntent) – the things that are held or included in something.
We found in these results that young people are uncomfortable or not content with taking on new challenges unless the content of the challenge is within their reach. Young people are not always convinced results are driven by effort. We are left with asymmetric survey results. This is consistent with research in the area of children’s unwillingness to take risks. Let Them Play, a project examining kids and independence co-produced by Today’s Parents and Maclean’s discusses how parenting styles have influenced today’s young people to be less likely to take on challenges or awesome risk. Most of us want our kids to be resilient, confident, achieve academic success, and have empathy. They support through their research that the young people who obtain these traits are most likely to have had room to explore, learn about themselves, and learn how to make mistakes.
Our TruerAnswers insights reveal some positive trends in how young adults view challenges:
Technology, particularly in the COVID virtual learning world, has placed even greater stress on the students and has challenged the administrators and teachers to deliver focused curriculum to keep pace of grade level education. Unfortunately the results of school surveys demonstrate we are collectively falling behind and there are many influencing factors. One of the most telling articles was published at NPR.org titled, “5 Things We’ve Learned About Virtual School in 2020.” Authored by Anya Kamenetz on 12/4/20. The article reinforces the emotional connection or disconnection of our students to this technology imperative. Are results suggest technology has not only had a major impact on students mentally. The physical impact has been just as damaging. When isolating one of the survey questions, “My smartphone may have made me less smart.”, we see truly a neutral response from the members. The result in further questioning suggest young people believe they have benefitted by having information at their fingertips. However, they do not believe they are gaining academic or emotional intelligence.
