An emerging epidemic of narcissism or much ado about nothing?

被引:40
作者
Donnellan, M. Brent [1 ]
Trzesniewski, Kali H. [2 ]
Robins, Richard W. [3 ]
机构
[1] Michigan State Univ, Dept Psychol, E Lansing, MI 48823 USA
[2] Univ Western Ontario, Dept Psychol, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
[3] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Psychol, Davis, CA 95616 USA
关键词
Narcissim; Generational changes; Generation Me;
D O I
10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.010
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
We evaluated secular increases in narcissism in light of issues raised by Twenge and Foster (2008) [Twenge and Foster (2008). Mapping the scale of the narcissism epidemic: Increases in narcissism 2002-2007 within ethnic groups. Journal of Research in Personality]. Year of data collection (19962008) and narcissism scores were weakly correlated in a sample of 30,073 participants (rs ranged from 0.019 to 0.044). The effect sizes were well below the conventional threshold for a "small" effect. Based on these and previous findings, we concluded that there is little evidence of a secular increase in narcissism in our datasets, (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:498 / 501
页数:4
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