Birth Cohort Increases in Narcissistic Personality Traits Among American College Students, 1982–2009

By Jean M. Twenge, J. Foster. 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Augment yourself through virtual mirror: the impact of self-viewing and narcissism on consumer responses (2018, background): “Recently, a steadily growing number of consumers have shown narcissistic traits (Twenge and Foster 2010); thus, studying the effects of narcissism as a consumer trait variable in the context of an AR virtual mirror could have important theoretical and practical implications.”
Generational Increases in Agentic Self-evaluations among American College Students, 1966–2009 (2012, background): “As narcissism (self-focus) has risen over the generations (Twenge & Foster, 2010) and empathy (other-focus) has declined (Konrath et al., 2011), greater cognitive egocentrism is a possible explanation for the increase in rating oneself above average.”
Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis (2011, methodology): “…mid-1980s until late into the first decade of the new millennium, using similar cross-temporal methods as in the current study (Twenge et al., 2008; Twenge & Foster, 2008, 2010).1 Dispositional narcissists have inflated self-views, especially on agentic traits such as power and intelligence (e.g.,…”
Changes in Pronoun Use in American Books and the Rise of Individualism, 1960-2008 (2013, background): “…in generational change, with recent samples more likely to endorse individualistic traits such as self-esteem, agency, and narcissism (Gentile, Twenge, & Campbell, 2010; Stewart & Bernhardt, 2010; Twenge & Foster, 2010; Twenge, Campbell, & Gentile, in press; for a review, see Twenge, 2006).”
Time Period and Birth Cohort Differences in Depressive Symptoms in the U.S., 1982–2013 (2015, background): “2011) and in the traits of individual people (Twenge and Foster 2010).”
Narcissism in organizational contexts (2010, background): “…to note that the use of standard personality assessments, such as the NPI, has the potential to yield higher scores for younger, male applicants, and also yield higher scores for African Americans and lower scores for Asian Americans (e.g., Foster et al., 2003 and Twenge and Foster, 2010).”
The Evidence for Generation We and Against Generation Me (2013, methodology): “As the basis of this assertion, she has conducted meta-analyses on studies of college students that include the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Twenge & Foster, 2010).”
A Sociocultural Approach to Narcissism: The Case of Modern China (2012, background): “…with some researchers arguing that there has been no change on level of narcissism in the past decades (Trzesniewski, Donnellan, & Robins, 2008), and others arguing in favour of a significant upward trend which manifests after accounting for confounding by college campus (Twenge & Foster, 2010).”
The Antihero in Popular Culture: Life History Theory and the Dark Triad Personality Traits (2012, background): “This increase may be a reflection of a more general increase in narcissism over time (Twenge & Foster, 2010; Twenge, Konrath, Foster, Campbell, & Bushman, 2008; but also see Donnellan, Trzesniewski, & Robins, 2009; Trzesniewski, Donnellan, & Robbins, 2008, for alternate accounts).”
Birth Cohort Differences in Self-Esteem, 1988–2008: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis (2010, background): “For example, college students’ narcissism scores increased over this time period (Twenge, Konrath, Foster, Campbell, & Bushman, 2008; Twenge & Foster, 2010), and narcissism is positively correlated with self-esteem (e.g., Bosson et al., 2008).”
Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time (2018, background): “On average, birth cohort shifts are around d = .015 to d = .02 per year in national samples (Twenge & Foster, 2010).”