Research says young people today are more narcissistic than ever
According to new research, young people today are significantly more narcissistic than during the 1980s and 1990s. Are we in the middle of a narcissism epidemic and, if so, who or what is to blame? Lynne Malcolm investigates.
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>Professor Twenge identifies a number of symptoms or correlates of narcissism and how it’s expressed in the larger culture. In the area of vanity, for example, they observe that plastic surgery rates in the US have gone through the roof since the late 1990s.
Hmm, I would have thought that indicates an obsession with appearance, but certainly not narcissism as originally implied by the term, i.e., being in love with one’s reflection. All that surgery and augmentation indicates a deep satisfaction with one’s reflection. Seems like another term being misused for the sake of psychobabble.
Um, deep satisfaction = deed dissatisfaction :)
Bubblecar said:
>Professor Twenge identifies a number of symptoms or correlates of narcissism and how it’s expressed in the larger culture. In the area of vanity, for example, they observe that plastic surgery rates in the US have gone through the roof since the late 1990s.Hmm, I would have thought that indicates an obsession with appearance, but certainly not narcissism as originally implied by the term, i.e., being in love with one’s reflection. All that surgery and augmentation indicates a deep satisfaction with one’s reflection. Seems like another term being misused for the sake of psychobabble.
All that surgery and augmentation indicates a deep dis-satisfaction with one’s reflection.
>fixed<
SSSF is to blame.
Hopey from SSSF, to be precise :)
Um, deep satisfaction = deed dissatisfaction = deep dissatisfaction
sigh :/
>It found the teenagers in the 1980s were much more concerned with global concerns, while teens today are much more likely to mention personal fears like loneliness or unemployment.
Maybe that’s because they really do face greater economic insecurity and a more uncertain future than teenagers in the 1980s.
Look to the workings of media, apply the narc’ scale to that, factor in its obscuring the difference between literal propositional content and intention.
Bubblecar said:
>It found the teenagers in the 1980s were much more concerned with global concerns, while teens today are much more likely to mention personal fears like loneliness or unemployment.Maybe that’s because they really do face greater economic insecurity and a more uncertain future than teenagers in the 1980s.
>Also, in the 80s there was still the cold war “One flash & you’re ash” reality.
Reagan didn’t help with his 1983 “Evil Empire” speech.
I’d bring things nearer something closer to home, the familial, and the question of do children still have a childhood (as I heard someone once put it).
Do they, and what is childhood?
Quite perversely the answer is in the second definition with example below.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/childhood
1. The time or state of being a child.
2. The early stage in the existence or development of something: the childhood of Western civilization