Self-Entitled College Students: Contributions of Personality, Parenting, and Motivational Factors
By E. Greenberger, J. Lessard, Chuansheng Chen, S. Farruggia. 2008
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Anecdotal evidence suggests an increase in entitled attitudes and behaviors of youth in school and college settings. Using a newly developed scale to assess “academic entitlement” (AE), a construct that includes expectations of high grades for modest effort and demanding attitudes towards teachers, this research is the first to investigate the phenomenon systematically. In two separate samples of ethnically diverse college students comprised largely of East and Southeast Asian American, followed by Caucasians, Latinos, and other groups (total N = 839, age range 18–25 years), we examined the personality, parenting, and motivational correlates of AE. AE was most strongly related to exploitive attitudes towards others and moderately related to an overall sense of entitlement and to narcissism. Students who reported more academically entitled attitudes perceived their parents as exerting achievement pressure marked by social comparison with other youth and materially rewarding good grades, scored higher than their peers in achievement anxiety and extrinsic motivation, and engaged in more academic dishonesty. AE was not significantly associated with GPA.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
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- Linking Academic Entitlement and Student Incivility Using Latent Means Modeling (2013, background): “Although interest in AE and student incivility has spawned several measures of AE (e.g., Achacoso, 2002; Chowning & Campbell, 2009; Greenberger et al., 2008), scores derived from many of these measures are lacking in validity evidence (for a review of existing measures, see Kopp, Zinn, Finney, & Jur”
- Faking in Personality Assessment: A “Multisaturation” Perspective on Faking as Performance (2011, background): “Although some traits serving faking can contribute positively to job performance (eg, ambition, social skills), hiring fakers also runs the risk of hiring workers prone to dishonesty, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and similarly troubling qualities (eg, Greenberger, Lessard, Chen & Farruggia, 2008 ;”
- The Development and Evaluation of the Academic Entitlement Questionnaire (2011, methodology): “Interestingly, they made no mention of the prior two AE scales (Achacoso, 2002; Greenberger et al., 2008).”
- Students as Consumers of Knowledge: Are They Buying What We’re Selling? (2010, background): “Greenberger et al. (2008) found that print media references for the combined search terms “sense of entitlement” and “students” had increased “from 16 in 1996 to 102 in 2006” (p.”
- Accountability, entitlement, tenure, and satisfaction in Generation Y (2015, background): “Greenberger et al. (2008) also reported a 300 percent increase in newspapers’ use of “sense of entitlement” during a similar time frame (1996-2006).”
- Are students their universities' customers? An exploratory study (2010, background): “For example, scholars have found that parental pressures to perform well and material rewards increase student entitlement ( Greenberger et al. , 2008”
- New Generation, Great Expectations: A Field Study of the Millennial Generation (2010, result): “In a similar vein, a recent study of university students, (Greenberger et al. 2008) found that Millennials demonstrated a sense of”