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).
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?
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.