Is There A, Narcissism Epidemic, Among Contemporary Young Adults

What is narcissism? There is no specific definition for it. In psychology, narcissism is a negative and bad character trait. Narcissists have an excessive pride and they obsess with self. In other words, they think they are better than others and only care about themselves. In fact, being confident can also be accused as narcissism. However, narcissism is more than self confidence. Nowadays, Generation Y is being claimed as narcissists and there are so many reason that the critics try to list it out to prove their claim. In my opinion, Generation Y is just adapt to the environment they are living right now. Accusing Millennials as narcissist is not accurate.

During our lives, everyone goes through a change and evolves in different ways. However, in the field of psychology as far as development, the process of growing and maturing has been previously linked only with childhood. One of the first theorists Erik Erickson felt that development continues throughout life. Erickson believes that each stage in life resembles to specific opportunities that the society might have. Erickson’s theory defines the impact of social involvement across the entire lifespan. Each stage of Erikson’s stages is unique in their own way. Erikson decided to present eight different stages of the psychosocial crisis for almost each age group.

The excerpt from the novel, Generation Me by Jean Twenge is a very opinionated piece about my generation, The Millennials, and those chronologically after us. Twenge clearly does not like my generation and the way we live our lives. I am not saying I completely disagree with many of her claims, such as my generation is narcissistic and undeserving; however, I believe her statements are very one-sided, narrow-minded, and uninformed.

In the first instance, the client will curtail or stop the consumption of alcohol, then we can attend to the needs of the body, to gain health and strength to build their physiology and heal. The client’s thinking and behaviour towards alcohol needs to change. The participation in a non-drinking culture will also help our process. The client will also gain education about alcohol use and abuse to build their understanding, addressing emotional issues and their interactions with old and new people. Sorting out housing, work and money issues will reduce stress, and working on limiting narcissism through self-transcendence. We can address the client’s needs in treatment in the recovery process in three phases

Firstly, this approach is crucial for understanding depression and anxiety, and the case of Neha’s depression is an example. Socially, she suffered a divorce and her parents’ death (Toates, 2010, p18).

In Joel Stein’s article “The New Greatest Generation” Stein not only explains, but defends the millennial generation. Stein explains that while “The incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as for the generation that's now 65 or older” it’s not all our fault! Part of the blame may lie with our parents. The millennial generation has grown up receiving awards just for participating. Our parents unwittingly instilled a since of narcissism in an attempt to build self-confidence by telling us our entire lives that we can be anything we want to be. Maybe people are right; maybe we are a lazy generation of narcissists, but it’s not completely our fault.

An important understanding is there are differences between self-esteem and narcissistic entitlement. Psychologist Lisa Firestone Ph.D. explains self-esteem is unlike narcissism where it exemplifies a disposition constructed on achievements mastered, beliefs one has adhered to, and concern for others. Narcissism contrarily is regularly established by an apprehension of failure or shortcomings, focusing on oneself, an ailing drive to be known as perfect, and a longstanding self-doubt as well as concealed emotions of inadequacy

Social anxiety is a debilitating disorder that often leads to significant social impairment, but impairment can transfer over to other domains of a person’s life (Ranta et al., 2007). That is, social anxiety to can lead to being socially incompetent and this can affect a persons work, education, and quality of relationships as well. Adolescents are especially susceptible to social anxiety because it is a developmental time when peer evaluation and social acceptance is very important; putting too much

The introduction to the article is written with a sympathetic tone and heartbreaking story, she deliberately uses this tactic to make the audience immediately loath self-centred teenagers. The story has a vulnerable character in this case the single mum; she announces that her cancer has severed, the teenage daughter responses with a selfish remark. she also uses the tactic of expressing the story is in fact true though she whole heartedly wished it wasn’t.

Based on the data we obtained, we were able to compute several figures of descriptive statistics for our study. For our social physique anxiety scale, the mean response for our group of participants is M = 2.73, with a standard deviation of SD = 0.44. For both scales, the mdn = 3, and mode = 3. For the scale on hypersensitive narcissism, our mean response is equal to M = 2.87, with a standard deviation of SD = 0.61. The range of scores obtained is equal to 4 (highest reported score was 5, lowers reported was 1). We computed the variance to equal r² = 1.46 for social physique anxiety, and 1.64 for hypersensitive narcissism. The

If the narcissist is set on belittling and degrading the child as well as you, you may need to wait until your child is old enough to speak out, to phone you when things get bad, and just so you can teach the child how to deal with such a parent. A child MUST know that this parent has a problem, and some things they do are definitely not right, otherwise they will see this parent’s treatment of them as their own fault - they are not good enough, not clever enough, they cost too much, etc.

Professions and occupations of early civilizations were and still are related to natural resources. However, modern professions focus on the importance of mental health as well. Professions such as engineering, science, psychology and environmental science are all major contributors to the current understanding we have of the world from predicting weather to the discovery of a new disorder. In the documentary, “Web of Hate” delves into the teenage dependency on social networks and its daunting consequence of developing depression and anxiety through cyber bullying. Child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg states that “the pervasive nature of the internet means cyber bullying can have a devastating psychological impact on young people.” Is his judgment accurate? It seems that way, considering that some cases of cyber bullying results in suicide. How is it that Dr. Carr-Gregg came to acknowledge this way of life? It could be because his “training... led to some form of mastery of a generalized cultural tradition…” (Professions, p.

By having written journals about how I am coping with my life without the use of alcohol, I realize that all my past that I have avoided, all the emotions that I blocked away are hitting me twice as hard. In the article Personality Traits and Global Self-esteem of Alcohol Addicts, the research gathered by Mitrovic, Hadzi-Pesic, Stojanovic, and Milicevic indicates that a “group of alcoholic addicts is characterized by low self-esteem, higher levels of tension, anxiety, sensitivity to criticism, insecurity and indecisiveness compared to the non-clinical population.” (Mitrovic, Hadzi-Pesic, Stojanovic, and Milicevic p.258). Now that my mentality is pure I have the ability to think clearly instead of clouding my mind and avoiding feelings that

“Self-esteem refers to individuals' evaluation of their self-worth or satisfaction. High self-esteem has been understood to be an influential predictor of happiness and satisfaction in relationships. In social media, people tend to present and interpret information based on their own feelings, states of mind, and points of view in order to enhance their self-esteem”(Shin, 2017). What happens when society gives us expectation that not all of us can meet. The issues within selfies and self-esteem comes from us viewing images of others’ lives, experiences, and lifestyles. Scrolling down your Instagram feed you may see a picture of a friend engagement, or a couple vacationing in Bora Bora, or even a group of people out on a Saturday night. Then you look at your own life. Maybe it seems like everyone on your Instagram feed is posting hundreds of selfies of them living their best life. And your life is not like that at all. This is where often self-esteem issues occur. You realistically can’t meet those expectations. So a correlation does exist between self-esteem, low life satisfaction and selfies especially if you’re not an active participant on social media. Some users use social media to lurk, which means to just observe and not post. Society teaches us to compare ourselves to others. Your self-esteem may continue to be effected if you follow the profiles of celebrities or instafamous

As they were in middle class, which was higher class than what my siblings and I were at, I wondered if this would apply to them. With my experience, I believe it would since they were of higher class than us and those narcissists would be boastful about accomplishments and possessions. Here, some readers may be saying that social class does not necessarily cause one to be narcissistic. I am not saying that not all those of higher class are narcissists, but rather that it can put them for a higher risk of becoming narcissistic. Other factors, such as social media and parenting, could also contribute to one becoming narcissistic.