There's a little debate raging among psychology researchers:
Are kids today more narcissistic and self-centered than they were in
the past? One side points to results from the Narcissistic Personality
Inventory (a test designed to measure, well, guess) as evidence that
this generation is both more conceited and more unhappy than people
were in the past. They point to the emphasis on self-esteem building
and the new technological avenues for self-promotion (like YouTube,
Facebook) as part of an epidemic of kids who collectively say, "I'm all
that." In fact, psych professor Jean Twenge has a book called
"Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident,
Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable Than Ever Before" that
summarizes this research, and many media outlets ate it up.
On the other side of the argument...
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