A meta-analysis found that narcissism levels among American college students have risen dramatically in recent decades. In 85 samples of students who completed the 40-item forced-choice
Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) between 1979 and 2006, the mean narcissism score increased by 30%. The results complement previous findings that other individualistic traits; such as assertiveness, agency, self-esteem, and extraversion, have also been on the rise. Of grave concern to institutions such as our's, who are educating the next generation of nurses and doctors, is what is happening to
empathy !
"We found the biggest drop in empathy after the year 2000," said co-author Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. "College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago, as measured by standard tests of this personality trait."
Konrath and her colleagues presented their findings this week in Boston at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.Labels: college students, empathy, generation me, meta-analysis, narcissism, psychology
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