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Pandemic types.

What makes one generation different from another?

• Shared life experiences
“In addition to coincidence of birth year grouping, a generation is
also defined by common tastes, attitudes, and experience….
Those times encompass a myriad of circumstances – economic,
social, sociological, and, of course, demographic.”

Types of generation

Generations
• Traditionalists/Silent Generation/Matures
– 1925 – 1945 (89 – 69 years of age)
– Baby Boomers
– 1946 – 1964 (68 – 50 years of age)
– Generation X/Baby Busters/13th Generation
– 1965 – 1981 (49 – 33 years of age)
– Millennials/Generation Y
– 1982 – 2000 (32 – 14 years of age)
– Nexters/ Generation Z
– 2001 – present (13 – 0 years of age)

Traditionalists
• Born 1925 to 1945
• Grew up with many rules and pressure to conform
• Increased prosperity over their lifetime; however, they remember
the Depression
• “Work First!”
• Children should be seen and not heard
• Expected lifetime career with one employer
• Prefer communication in writing
• Desire to leave a lasting legacy
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Baby Boomers
• Born 1946 to 1964
• Grew up with fewer rules and a more nurturing environment
• Lived in generally prosperous times, but experienced layoffs
• Women entered workforce in record numbers
• “Live to Work!”
• Spend “quality time” with children
• Excelling in their career is important
• Prefer telephone or face-to-face communication
• Desire challenge and opportunity
Common Values
• Baby Boomers
– Optimism
– Team orientation
– Personal gratification
– Involvement
– Personal growth
– Workaholics
– Competitors
Common Values
• Traditionalists
– Hard work
– Dedication and sacrifice
– Respect for rules
– Duty before pleasure
– Honor
– Conformity
– Loyalty
– Frugality
• More prone to be Cyber victims
• Gen X –
1961 – 1981
• Take job seriously
• Entrepreneurial
• Apathetic/cynical
• Low level of trust toward authority
• Alienated as kids
• Era of the Latchkey Child
• Parent/child Involvement: Distant
• Grew up as latchkey or day care children
• Turbulent economic times – downturn in 80s, upswing in 90s
• “Work to Live!”
• Friends with their child, want to spend quantity time
• Expect their career to keep moving forward or they will leave
• Prefer electronic communications
• Change from job security to career security
Common Values
• Generation X
 – Diversity
– Techno-literacy
– Fun and informality
– Self-reliance
– Pragmatism – realists
– Results oriented
– Individualism
– Challenge the system
• Millennial
• Born 1982 to 2000
• Attended day care, very involved “helicopter” parents
• Prosperity has increased over their lifetime
• “Live, then Work!”
• Achievement oriented
• Prefer instant or text messaging
• Want to build parallel careers – experts in multitasking
• Common Values
• Millennial
– Optimistic
– Civic duty
– Confident
– Achievement oriented
– Respect for diversity
– Informal
– Tenacious
– Social consciousness
• More Characteristics of the Millennialism
• Parent/Child Involvement: Intruding
• Get trophies for participation rather than victory
• Share a lot of information about themselves
• Expect to get to the top quickly
• Think they are equal to authority
• Increase rate of anxiety and depression
• Gap between optimism growing up and reality
• Special
• Sheltered
• Confident
• Team-Oriented
• Achieving
• Pressured
• Conventional
Events and Experiences that Shaped Generations
• Traditionalists
– Great Depression
– New Deal
– Attack on Pearl Harbor
– World War II
– Korean War
– Radio
– Telephone
• Baby Boomers
– Civil rights
– Feminism
– Vietnam
– Cold war
– Space travel
– Assassinations
– Scientific advances
– Credit cards
– Television
• Generation X
– Fall of the Berlin Wall
– Challenger disaster
– Desert Storm
– Personal computers
– Working mothers
– MTV
– Divorce
– Energy crisis
– Millennials
– Child-focused world
– School shootings
– 9/11
– Boston Marathon
– Internet
– Social networking
– Continual feedback
– Enron/WorldCom
– Iraq/Afghanistan
 • On-the-Job Challenges
Traditionalists and Boomers generally do not question or challenge authority.
• On-the-Job Challenges
• Trads • Boomers • Xers • Millennial

• Service
• Adaptable and • Multitaskers
Job Strength • Stable Oriented/Team
Techno-Literate Techno-Savv
Players

Outlook • Practical • Optimistic • Skeptical • Hopeful

• Unimpressed and
View of Authority • Respectful • Love/Hate • Polite
Unintimidated

Leadership • By Hierarchy • By Consensus • By Competence

By Pulling Together

• Personal • Reluctant to
Relationships • Personal Sacrifice • Inclusive
Gratification Commit

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• Xers and Millennials
– Prefer electronic communication.
– Do not like meetings.
– Many have not developed listening skills.
– Traditionalists and Boomers
– Prefer face-to-face communication.
– Boomer bosses like to have at least one meeting each week
with employees.
• Generation Z
• They multitask on five screens, not one or two. They experience
FOMO: the "Fear Of Missing Out." They try to consume it all.
• They plan to get educated and start working earlier, but will be
"school hackers" and not necessarily attend a liberal arts
college.
• 75% wish their current hobby could become their full-time job.
• Generational Definitions
• Post 70’s- Conservatism
• Post 80’s- Privilege
• Post 90’s- Prosperity
• This generation grew up during the early years of the era, and lived
through the difficulties of the major cultural event of their time.
They tend to be much more conservative, and hold traditional
values.
• The only society they have ever known has transformed itself
upside down from a society where the elderly are respected, to a
“Little Emperors” society where the child is spoiled and given
every privilege by their parents and grandparents.
• Grew up only knowing a very prosperous nation. This generation
has also grown up being doted on by their parents and
grandparents.
• Not only that, the teachers and parents of this generation are
increasingly those of the previous generation. Thus those who are
influencing the current generation have not been as influenced by
conservative ideas as in the past.
• On social media
• Differences between Millennials and Zs
• Millennials
• Millennials spent money boldly and with few boundaries
• Millennials grew up during a strong economy
• Millennials subscribed to everything social
• Millennials watched YouTube, Hulu and Netflix
• Millennials loved sports and adventure
• Millennials grew up with slightly longer attention spans
• Millennials would initiate text for communication
• Millennials enjoyed a life that revolved around them
• Generation Z
• 57 percent of Generation Z prefers saving money to spending it.
• Generation Z is growing up in a time of recession, terrorism,
violence, volatility and complexity.
• Generation Z does not wish to be tracked and prefers more private
networks like Snapchat, Whisper, Secret, and Yik Yak.
• Generation Z creates content and interactive work.
• Generation Z sees sports as a health tool, not for play. Their games
are inside. Teen obesity has tripled since 1970.
• Generation Z has an attention span of 8 seconds.
• Generation Z prefers communicating through images, icons and
symbols.
• Generation Z plans on coping with multi-generational households
and marriages (400 percent increase).
Parenting
• DEFINITION OF HELICOPTER PARENT
Parents who constantly hover over their children in search of
danger.
• Micromanaging every aspect of their lives.
• They rush to prevent any harm or failure from befalling them or
letting them learn from their own mistakes, sometimes even
contrary to the children\'s wishes.
• They hover closely overhead, rarely out of reach whether their
children need them or not
• There are two main types:
• rescue helicopter parent/Rambo hawk parent
• Parents
Common Characteristics
• Swoop down at first hint of trouble
• Provide money, supplies, support
• Motto: NO PAIN IS GAIN
• Example:
• Lie to school about student being absent
• Brings homework to school if child leaves it at home
• Calls/email teachers constantly about every low grade
• Makes excuses for child’s mistake
• Does projects/fills out college applications/resumes
• Cell phones have created the longest umbilical cord
• Fear of loosing –Heli parents
• Heli parents :
• Expression
• RAMBO BLACK HAWK PARENT.
SHOOT FIRST…ASK QUESTIONS LATER
• Other Behaviour of heli parents
• Making decisions for the student
• Which clubs to join; what colleges to apply to; which activities to
participate in.
• Obsess over teacher assignments
• Request teacher changes before school year starts
• Parent Self worth is based on child’s success and happiness .
• Fight child’s battle (playground incident)
• what is the outcome for the child..
 • “ I DO NOT TRUST THAT YOU WILL MAKE THE RIGHT
DECISION”
• “TO GET WHAT YOU WANT YOU MUST USE AGGRESSION
AND INTIMIDATION”
• “YOU CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT ME”
• WHY HELICOPTER?
• LOVE
• FEAR
• Not just about something bad happening
• Not being loved back
• Fear of failure
• Guilt
• Work full time; Divorce
• Exhaustion
• Too tired
• Culture
• Peer pressure
• Technology ( Cell phones, Texting)
• Re-parent
• Issues with past
• Anxiety/Depression/
• Other Mental Health Issues
• Lawn mover parenting
Another term used is lawnmower parents are the newest breed of
overbearing parents who are excessively involved in their
children's lives. They plow ahead—micromanaging, interfering,
and arranging. Their goal is to protect them from failure,
disappointment, discomfort, and adversity. But all this fixing and
helping is not creating happy or healthy children. Instead, this type
of parenting pattern is spawning a generation of kids who have no
idea what to do when they encounter struggles.
Tiger Parenting
Tiger parenting is a form of strict parenting, whereby parents are
highly invested in ensuring their children's success. Specifically, tiger
parents push their children to attain high levels of academic achievement
or success in high-status extracurricular activities such as music or sports.

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• Pandemic Parenting- A New Pattern of Parenting with
substance teaching children life values ,crisis management
minimalism, life purposes, survival skills etc
• Free range parenting
• Free-range parenting isn’t about being permissive or uninvolved.
Instead, it’s about allowing kids to have the freedom to experience
the natural consequences of their behavior—when it’s safe to do
so. It’s also about ensuring kids have the skills they need to
become responsible adults.
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• How all different parents react in single situation.
• Here's an example of how parents in each parenting style might
respond to a child's request to walk to the store alone.
• Helicopter parent: "Sure, I'll walk behind you the whole way to
make sure you stay safe."
• Free-range parent: "Sure. Can you pick up some milk while
you're there?"
• Lawnmower parent: "Sure, I'll walk ahead of you and make sure
it's safe. I'll tell you when it's safe to cross the road."
• Tiger parent: "No, you need to practice your violin for another
hour."
• Consequences for the child
• No coping strategies/survival skills/problem solving techniques
• No confidence in abilities/low self esteem
• False sense of security
• Poor relationships with others/isolation
• Dependency/Fear of rejection
• CONSEQUENCES FOR THE HELI PARENTS
• Insecure about making decisions
• Fearful of conflict/failure
• Narcissism “ALL ABOUT ME SYNDROME”
• Anxiety/depression as adults
• Increased anxiety and depression
• Negative self image
• Codependency
• Loss of self
• 4 types of Pandemics
1.viral pandemic [we all know]
2.Info-demic pandemic
• Good part:
• Good information
• Learning from other countries
• Effective treatment option
• Bad Part:
• Fake News, Quackery, unscientific news
• Contagion memes
• Economical Pandemic
• Economic
• Financial stock /Market policy
• Global recession
• Hard to predict market
• Tax collection goes down during pandemic crisis
• Wage workers suffer due to lockdown
• It stays Longer than viral PANDEMIC
• Psychological pandemic
• Fear / uncertainty / doubt
• Mask wearing fear
frank snow den , stigmatization, scapegoating ,flight response,
mass hysteria, riots, upsurge in religiosity
• Behavioral Pandemic
• Behavioral
• Good behavior - washings hands etc
• Bad behavior -ostracize victims
• Avoid screening
• Attack groups
• Escape quarantine
• Hoarding
• Profiteering
• Congregating religious events.
• Info-demic – leads to behavioral changes
• Psy will lead to economic problems
Psychological Pandemic consist of :
• Fear
• Anticipatory Anxiety
• Adaptive response
• Less physiologically coping
• Anxiety to 10 percent population
• Cause behind anxiety is –incomplete information and knowledge
about corona .
• Herd instinct in pandemic
• Buying grocery and hoarding
• TOILET PAPERS example of us market
• Opening of shops and market
• Not following 144 rules during curfew and all
• Not abiding / following lockdown rules
• Normal response Expected from population
• 15 DAYS FOOD
• STAY SAFE
• LIMITED NEWS N GENUINE
Concept of Sneeze shaming- If you’re anywhere in public — grocery
stores being nearly as dangerous as emergency rooms these days — you
have seen this in action: A person sneezes, and everyone's head whips
around, eyes glaring, teeth bared. Maybe there can be assault. One
“achoo” and you’re Public Enemy
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What is Xenophobia - The online dictionary defines xenophobia as
“fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or
strangers,” and also notes in its blog that it can “also refer to fear or
dislike of customs, dress, and cultures of people with backgrounds
different from our own.”29-Nov-2016

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BEHAVIOURAL IMMUNE SYSTEM The behavioral immune system
is a phrase coined by the psychological scientist Mark Schaller to refer
to a suite of psychological mechanisms that allow individual organisms to
detect the potential presence of infectious parasites or pathogens in their
immediate environment, and to engage in behaviors that prevent ...

What is contagious
Fear uncertainty
doubt are contagious
• Brain / Mind concept- in pandemic
How brain works during remote working
• It has Limited bandwith to solve problems
• It Regulate emotions
• Performs well when less than 6 feet distance
• Difference between Live person -remote person
• Touch creates emotional activity in brain
• Additional extra circuit is used to work on video during work
• Turning to device Will have diminishing return on Long term -
to regulate stress
• It is proved that Social isolation is like death sentence to humans
• History of loneliness
• 20 century – living alone concept came up
th

• 28% upto 1980 and 2012-60% in Swedish people were living alone
but Living alone –they do not think much as compared to lonely people
• Loneliness feel, miss hugs, close people etc- they feel it is just
survival than living
• Last few decades Human life on running money and material and
neglected human relationship
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• Science shows and isolation has physical toll on brain circulatory
• Heart rate ,stress hormone- inflammation increases
• Brigham university researched on 3.4 million
• Loneliness leads to early death 26%
• Social isolation - Mortality by 29%
• Living alone - Death 32%-

Sequence
• . Soon, we learnt & adapted to new norms of frequently washing
hands, wearing masks, and physically distancing ourselves.
However, it also evoked a hidden hope of magical disappearance
of virus with the invention of vaccine and end of Pandemic. Thus
adapting to new norms and remaining emotionally connected
through social network was perceived as a new alternative for time
being.
• Birds of same feather flock together so All felt the same
Concerns thoughts apprehension were same
• There was a Psychological hitch to the Conditioned model
• All these years, we were conditioned to a schedule and structure
to take care of physical health with activities like gym, swimming,
yoga, exercises, sports, club, so on …..,
• For social and emotional needs, we were spending time with
friends and relatives.
• One year “different” experience resulted in change in our waking
up and sleep patterns & eating habits,
• Physical distancing from loved ones & friends resulted in social
withdrawal affecting emotional bonding.
• It disrupted our teaching & learning patterns from physical to
virtual mode,
• Affected group activities like sports, closing of gym, yoga etc.
• This resulted in lack of enough physical exercise having its
impact on sleep hygiene.
• These changed conditions was a psychological hitch to the
habituated life style.
• All those affected were disturbed under these changed conditions.
• Suddenly they started feeling as if they were thrown out of the gear
• This gave rise to stress resulting in different psychosomatic
symptoms
• Started creating disturbance in family lives & affecting
interpersonal relations
• Govt was working hard and family thought vaccination will change
the life in short time and felt this a temporary change .
• There was an discrepancy between ACTUAL EXPECTED
behavior and actual performed behavior in society

Outcome..
• Conflicts started at home and workplace
• Behavioural changes like irritation ,anger, surfaced
• Sleep related problems started
• Cyber behavior changed
• Depression increased in families
• Online classes problems with children started

• People started LONELY AND HELPLESSNESS

• PHYSICAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH took a toll
• Online sex dating app grab the market
• Overloading of information started
• Domestic violence increased
• Second wave started and second lockdown broke the hopes of
general population
• Emotions during second wave
• Anger:
• Angry at people who are not compliant with restrictions and risk
others
• Angry at politicians
• Angry at members of the household with whom you have to spend
a lot of time with
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Angry at Politician
• Angry with those not following rules
• Mess at Home and Angry at them
• ECONOMIC ANXIETY
• Uncertain future
• What lead to stress in second wave
• Second wave is resulting in an imbalance between the demand of
the situation and the individual's capability to respond. Thus stress
is experienced in which one feels overwhelmed or unable to cope
as the pressures are unmanageable.
• Stress is the body's reaction to real or perceived harmful situations.
When you feel threatened, a chemical reaction occurs in your body
 that allows you to act in a way to prevent harm. This reaction is
known as "fight-or-flight,” or the stress response.
• During stress response, heart rate increases, breathing hastens,
muscles tighten, and blood pressure rises.
Does the Stress mean same to all ??
• No. Stress means different things to different people. What causes
stress in one person may be of little concern to another. Some
people are able to handle their stress better than others.
• Our bodies are designed to handle small doses of stress that can
help you accomplish tasks and prevent you from getting hurt. For
example, while driving on the road, stress is what gets you to crash
on the breaks to avoid an accident which is a good thing.
• But we are not equipped to handle long-term, chronic stress
without ill consequences.

• What is stress?
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Types of stress: Stress management can be complicated and confusing
because there are different types of stress — acute stress, episodic acute
stress, and chronic stress — each with its own characteristics, symptoms,
duration and treatment approaches. Let's look at each one.

The Four Common Types of Stress

• Time stress.
• Anticipatory stress.
• Situational stress.
Encounter stress.

Stress responses are normal reactions to environmental or internal

perturbations and can be considered adaptive in nature.
Distress occurs when stress is severe, prolonged, or both.
Eustress : a positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health,
motivation, performance, and emotional well-being … during positive
stress ("eustress"), such as a promotion or vacation, feel-good chemicals
called endorphins are released.—

• STRESS EFFECTS
• Behavioral symptoms of stress include:
• Changes in appetite -- either not eating or eating too much
• Procrastinating and avoiding responsibilities
• Increased use of alcohol, drugs, or cigarettes
• Neurotic behaviors like fidgeting, nail biting and pacing
• Psycho Somatic problems
• Physical symptoms of stress
• Low energy, sweating
• Insomnia & Headaches
• Stomach problems (Digestive disorders) like constipation, diarrhea,
& nausea
• Aches & pains,
• Cramps or muscle spasms
• Chest pain and rapid heartbeat
• Frequent colds and infections
• Loss of sexual desire and/or ability
• Nervousness and shaking, cold or sweaty hands and feet
• Ringing in the ear, difficulty in swallowing, dry mouth
• Clenched jaw and grinding teeth, fainting, pins & needles
sensations
• Emotional symptoms of stress includes:
• Becoming easily agitated, frustrated, and moody
• Feeling overwhelmed, as if you are losing control or need to take
control
• Having difficulty in remaining relaxed and quietening the mind
• Feeling lonely, worthless, depressed, Avoiding others
• Feeling bad about oneself (low self-esteem),
• Cognitive symptoms of stress include:
• Constant worrying
• Racing thoughts
• Forgetfulness and disorganization
• Inability to focus, poor attention
• Poor judgment
• Being pessimistic or seeing only the negative side
Suggestible – Journals
• Cyber psychology behavioral and social networking
• www.lieberpub.com

• Journal of computer based communication

• www. Onlinelibrary.wiley.com

• Computers in human behavior

• www.journals.elsevier.com

Movies and series to be watched .

1. Social dilemma
2. Black mirror
3. CSI
4. Movie- love guarantee
5. The hater
6. Emily in paris
7. Die influencers die
8. Spree
9. #realityhigh
10. searching