Further Evidence of an Increase in Narcissism Among College Students

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Birth Cohort Increases in Narcissistic Personality Traits Among American College Students, 1982–2009 (2010, methodology): “…a significant effect for year of data collection (b ¼ .47, p < .001, k ¼ 107, d ¼ .37, N ¼ 49,818) from 1982 to 2008, replicating the increase found in the Twenge et al. (2008a) meta-analysis (d ¼ .33, k ¼ 85 from 1982 to 2006).2 Campus is also a highly significant predictor in this analysis…”
Mapping the scale of the narcissism epidemic: Increases in narcissism 2002–2007 within ethnic groups (2008, unknown): “Thus it is difficult to interpret these results (see Twenge et al. (2008b) for further discussion of this issue).”
Frustration-based outcomes of entitlement and the influence of supervisor communication (2010, background): “Media reports of entitlement issues have become common (e.g. Roosevelt, 2009) and research has shown an increase in narcissistic behaviors associated with a sense of entitlement (Twenge and Foster, 2008; Twenge et al., 2008).”
A Sociocultural Approach to Narcissism: The Case of Modern China (2012, background): “In response to a call for data from other cultures (Twenge et al., 2008a), we conducted the first large-scale examination of self-views, as depicted in narcissism, in relation to various societal changes taking place in a traditionally collectivistic culture—namely, China.”