January 25, 2008

Study Finds No Increase in Student Narcissism

By DAVID GLENN

There is no evidence that students are growing more narcissistic, according to a paper to appear in the February issue of Psychological Science.

The new study challenges a 2007 paper trumpeting a rise in student narcissism. That paper's lead author, Jean M. Twenge, an associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of dozens of small studies in which a total of 16,000 college students took a questionnaire known as the