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Can anyone link the actual study? Tried following the links but got blocked by a log-in wall to see the actual study. Was there a control for the study? What w

Can anyone link the actual study? Tried following the links but got blocked by a log-in wall to see the actual study. Was there a control for the study? What were the questions asked? And how can they draw any conclusions from a group of 170 students (which I am assuming is their study group, unless the paper says otherwise). It could also be that young people are being asked to do more with less compensations and hardly any positive re-assurance about future stability (jobs, income, housing).

model_m_warrior 9y ago
https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-...
Bjartr 9y ago
Found some coverage that wasn't just copy-pasted between blogs. https://www.livescience.com/53591-millennials-dislike-narcissism-label.html https://www.livescience.com/53591-millennials-dislike-narcis... Still couldn't find the studies themselves though. I wonder if there's any way to the effect of age, as opposed to generation, on the studies. Even in the livescience coverage I wonder if the trend is more recent generations are more entitled than older generations in general (as the submission posits) or if populations become less entitled as they age and if so how entitled were the older generations when they were the younger generations' age?
- colorint 9y ago
  I think they're talking about "Trait entitlement: A cognitive-personality source of vulnerability to psychological distress," based on one of the linked blog posts mentioning Grubbs and Exline 2016. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a free copy. Nor does this seem to talk about generational demographics, so I guess that stuff was glommed on from somewhere else.
  - Bjartr 9y ago
    It was available on sci-hub, but a quick soon didn't find the claims the article made, although I could have missed it.
oceanghost 9y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Young people today are aware that the economic and political environment is a farce. They know their options for prosperity are limited. The average 20 something I know is struggling with huge student loans, struggling to afford medical care, cannot afford their rent nor to save for a home, while simultaneously being told that their "lazy" by the generation that sold their futures before they were born. And I am talking about college graduates here. A college degree is no longer a guarantor of a job, it is a guarantor of debt, however. Younger people are growing up without much hope for their futures. For many of these people-- the US has been in perpetual war their entire life, we've been in a depression most of their lives. There is no option to get ahead because the elderly have all of the assets. And if you want to blame them still? Remember who raised them-- the same people complaining now. Source? I'm in my 40's but work near a university and have a lot of college aged friends and acquaintances.

model_m_warrior 9y ago

https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-...

Bjartr 9y ago

Found some coverage that wasn't just copy-pasted between blogs. https://www.livescience.com/53591-millennials-dislike-narcissism-label.html https://www.livescience.com/53591-millennials-dislike-narcis... Still couldn't find the studies themselves though. I wonder if there's any way to the effect of age, as opposed to generation, on the studies. Even in the livescience coverage I wonder if the trend is more recent generations are more entitled than older generations in general (as the submission posits) or if populations become less entitled as they age and if so how entitled were the older generations when they were the younger generations' age?

colorint 9y ago
I think they're talking about "Trait entitlement: A cognitive-personality source of vulnerability to psychological distress," based on one of the linked blog posts mentioning Grubbs and Exline 2016. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a free copy. Nor does this seem to talk about generational demographics, so I guess that stuff was glommed on from somewhere else.
- Bjartr 9y ago
  It was available on sci-hub, but a quick soon didn't find the claims the article made, although I could have missed it.

oceanghost 9y ago

You hit the nail on the head. Young people today are aware that the economic and political environment is a farce. They know their options for prosperity are limited. The average 20 something I know is struggling with huge student loans, struggling to afford medical care, cannot afford their rent nor to save for a home, while simultaneously being told that their "lazy" by the generation that sold their futures before they were born. And I am talking about college graduates here. A college degree is no longer a guarantor of a job, it is a guarantor of debt, however. Younger people are growing up without much hope for their futures. For many of these people-- the US has been in perpetual war their entire life, we've been in a depression most of their lives. There is no option to get ahead because the elderly have all of the assets. And if you want to blame them still? Remember who raised them-- the same people complaining now. Source? I'm in my 40's but work near a university and have a lot of college aged friends and acquaintances.