“Help” isn’t a dirty word: a new study has found younger generations are less likely to think asking for help is a bad thing.

The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults, split evenly between Gen Z, millennials, Gen X, and baby boomer generations, found that the two younger generations saw asking for help as a positive thing (71% for millennials, 66% for Gen Zers) more than Gen Xers and baby boomers (54% and 45%, respectively).

Likewise, both a majority of Gen Zers (57%) and millennials (60%) believe they’re better at asking for help or support when it’s needed than their predecessors.

If they were actually put in a challenging position where they had to decide to ask for help or manage it on their own, a quarter of all Americans (26%) said they’d prefer asking for help.

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