Generational differences are a valid tool to define groups of individuals that can provide insights into attitudes and behaviors (Pew Research Center, 2015) that is rarely employed in research. Typically, researchers group individuals by arbitrary 10-year cutoffs (for example) or broad age groupings (e.g., those over/under the age of 45). Generational differences are meaningful because they take age, cohort (unique to a generation), and period (an event, such as war, that everyone experiences) effects into account (Pew Research Center, 2015). In America, there are six living generations: greatest (b. < 1928), silent (b. 1928–1945), baby boomers (b. 1946–1964), generation X (b. 1965–1980), millennial (b. 1981–1996), generation Z (b. 1997–2012), and the yet unnamed generation of currently young children (b. > 2012) (Pew Research Center, 2015, 2019). The greatest generation does not comprise much of the population, nor is the line between generation Z and the currently youngest generation firmly established (Pew Research Center, 2015, 2019). Thus, the current study focused on the silent through millennial generations. Millennials are the children of baby boomers and generation X are the children of
