The Millennial coevals get a wad of pom-pom for but existing . Individuals born roughly between1980 and 1996 , various think pieces have declare , are “ narcissistic , overconfident , entitled and indolent , ” “ addicted to social medium , ” and otherwise incompetent of doing anything but gazing at their own navels ( through the lenses of their iPhones , surely ) . Despiteevidenceshowing that Millennials aren’tall that differentfrom what previous generations were like in their youth , plenteousness of news organizations still devote space to excoriate kids today for beingself - obsessed .
The affair is , if you tell masses they ’re narcissistic enough , they ’ll probably start to believe you . concord to young research present at theSociety for Personality and Social Psychology ’s one-year get together in January , Millennials do believe themselves to be more narcissistic than premature generation .
Over the class of seven experiment , investigator from Case Western Reserve University ’s psychology section had hoi polloi in a all-embracing range of years groups range the narcissism levels of various generations . They also rated their answer to articles about generational change , such as aTimemagazine cover write up called “ Millennials : The Me Me Me Generation . ” All generations consider their own age chemical group as less egotistical than other groups order them , but old generations in particular pile on Millennials for their self-love , while absolving their own age group .
Millennials between the age of 18 and 25 ( a chemical group that skews younger than some definition of Millennial , which can go up to eld 35 ) on mean rated themselves 61.4 on a 100 - stop scale for narcissism , while the same group rated adult over 60 years old as just 38 . Meanwhile , people ages 60 and up rank Millennials as 65.3 on the same scale , while ranking their own generation at 26.5 .
But even if they correspond , Millennials do n’t in reality apprize being constantly told they ’re narcissistic , study author Joshua Grubbs told Live Science . ( Imagine that . ) However , while many Millennials were offended by how narcissistic other generations deemed them , someone who in person nock high for egotistical traits were less distraught over it . Just embrace your office as generational scapegoat , Millennials !
[ h / tLive Science ]
