This certainly is not a good trend. My generation was more narcissistic than my parents, and Millennials are more narcissistic still. This is not a good thing, and seems to be getting worse. I wonder why.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...healthy-living
Narcissism rises
Different research methods have found that individualism is on the rise in American culture, with younger generations reporting less empathy and more self-focus than generations before. Although this narcissism is often pinned on millennials alone in the popular press, research going back to the early 1900s suggests that these forces have been in play for at least a century.
“There is a very consistent and reliable trend where all indicators of individualism [have] been on the rise over the course of the last 100 years,” University of Waterloo psychologist Igor Grossman, who was not involved in Grubbs’ work, told an audience at the SPSP meeting. The youngest generation is more self-centered than those before it, Grossman said, but the same could have been said of the youth of the 1950s versus the youth of the 1930s, and so on.
Different research methods have found that individualism is on the rise in American culture, with younger generations reporting less empathy and more self-focus than generations before. Although this narcissism is often pinned on millennials alone in the popular press, research going back to the early 1900s suggests that these forces have been in play for at least a century.
“There is a very consistent and reliable trend where all indicators of individualism [have] been on the rise over the course of the last 100 years,” University of Waterloo psychologist Igor Grossman, who was not involved in Grubbs’ work, told an audience at the SPSP meeting. The youngest generation is more self-centered than those before it, Grossman said, but the same could have been said of the youth of the 1950s versus the youth of the 1930s, and so on.
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