{"id":2231,"date":"2007-03-05T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/05\/college-students-think-theyre-so-special\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T17:37:52","slug":"college-students-think-theyre-so-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/college-students-think-theyre-so-special\/","title":{"rendered":"College students think they&#8217;re so special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/\">MSNBC<\/a> February 27, 2007<\/p>\n<p><em>Study finds alarming rise in narcissism, self-centeredness in \u2018Generation Me\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Today\u2019s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to stop endlessly repeating \u2018You\u2019re special\u2019 and having children repeat that back,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author, Professor Jean Twenge of San Diego State University. \u201cKids are self-centered enough already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenge and her colleagues, in findings to be presented at a workshop Tuesday in San Diego on the generation gap, examined the responses of 16,475 college students nationwide who completed an evaluation called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory between 1982 and 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17349066\/\/\">Read the rest of this entry>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC February 27, 2007 Study finds alarming rise in narcissism, self-centeredness in \u2018Generation Me\u2019 NEW YORK &#8211; Today\u2019s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society. \u201cWe need to stop &#8230; <a title=\"College students think they&#8217;re so special\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/college-students-think-theyre-so-special\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about College students think they&#8217;re so special\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}