Generational Differences In Self Entitlement

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A study of the Differences in Self- Entitlement across three Generations
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Abstract
Every generation has its own level of narcissism, hypertensive narcissism, and level of
psychological self- entitlement. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is any
significant difference in the average level of narcissism, hypertensive narcissism, and self-
entitlement across three generations: The baby boomers, millennials and generation X. The data
was collected through questionnaires. The analyses revealed that there was no significant
relationship between year of birth (generations) and the level of self-entitlement. However, there
was a significant relationship between the year of birth (generations) and the level of narcissism
and hypertensive narcissism. There was no significant difference in the average level of
narcissism and level of psychological self-entitlement across the generations. However, there
was a significant difference in the average level of hypertensive narcissism across the
generations. The findings support the revelation from the literature review that the older
generation usually use terms that seem to prejudice the younger generation.
Keywords: Narcissism, Hypertensive Narcissism, Self-Entitlement, Millennial, Baby
Boomer, Generation X, Correlation, ANOVA and Post hoc.

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Table of Contents
Abstract................................................................................................................................2
A study of the Differences in Self- Entitlement across three Generations..........................4
Introduction..........................................................................................................................4
Literature Review............................................................................................................4
The rationale for the study...............................................................................................6
Research aims and question.............................................................................................6
Hypothesis.......................................................................................................................6
Method.................................................................................................................................7
Participants......................................................................................................................7
Materials..........................................................................................................................8
Procedure.........................................................................................................................8
Results..................................................................................................................................8
Pearson Correlations........................................................................................................9
General Differences.......................................................................................................10
Discussion..........................................................................................................................10
References..........................................................................................................................13
Tables.................................................................................................................................15

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A study of the Differences in Self- Entitlement across three Generations
Introduction
Every generation has its own form of entitlement and conceit of itself. People will
always view their own generation as the best and the most realistic (Jennifer, Amy, & Heejung,
2019). People get a sense of entitlement and are brought about by different innovations,
technologies and other activities that take place during their generation. For example, those of
generation X will boast of the technologies that revolutionized the field of agriculture in the
whole world (Joshua, Levi, & Imani, 2016). Similarly, the millennials will boast of the invention,
advancement, and influence of social media in society. In this study, we focused on investigating
the sense of entitlement across three generations: Generation X, the millennials and the baby
boomers. The study also focused on establishing the relationship between narcissism,
hypertensive narcissism and self-entitlement (Joshua, Levi, & Imani, 2016).
Self-entitlement is the feeling of ownership of an idea, property or concept. Baby
boomers consist of the cohort of individuals who were born between the year 1946 and the year
1964 while generation X is the cohort of individuals who were born between the year 1965 and
the year 1979 (Uracha & Janet, 2016). On the other hand, the Millennials are those in the cohort
between the years 1981 and the year 1996 (Robert, Conrad, & Kevin, Psychometric Properties of
the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, 2018).
Literature Review
The study by (Fossati, Somma, Borroni, & Markon, 2017) revealed that older people
always have prejudice towards young people. Older people always use terms or words that show
a lot of arrogance, entitlement, and lack of respect towards the younger. According to older
people, their own generation is the best and cannot be compared to the younger generation by