Generation Snowflake is really more flaky than the elderly

Generation Snowflake is really more flaky than older people – but may not mention it because they will probably get upset.

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The results suggest that all age groups – including Generation Y and Generation Z themselves – believe that they are the most narcissistic and best fit.

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The authors of the study believe that academic reports and popular literature have contributed to the "widespread" idea that emerging adults – people in transition from adolescence to adulthood – have more rights and are narcissistic compared to other age groups.

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To find out, researchers from Bowling Green State University in the United States have conducted three studies.

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Participants in the first study included more than 1,000 undergraduate university students and 724 people from various age groups in an online crowdsourcing platform.

All have completed standard measures of personality traits and surveys of relevant stereotypes and opinions.

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According to the results, they feel they are negative traits and react negatively to the labels applied to their age group.

The results of crowdsourcing suggest that older people's views of narcissism and the rights of adolescents and emerging adults are more exaggerated than the actual views of emerging adults themselves.

In two other studies, researchers examined the reactions of 218 and 376 university students to excerpts from written documents describing people aged 18 to 25 years.

They found that students reacted negatively when their age group was labeled as narcissistic and entitled to vote, and they reacted with a degree of negativity similar to other "undesirable" labels, such as hypersensitivity.

Although further studies are needed to confirm and refine the findings, the research team suggests that emerging adults know and believe that widespread messages characterize their age group as more narcissistic and entitled – and that they are somewhat disturbed by the labels.

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Joshua Grubbs, director of study at the department of psychology at Bowling Green State University, said: "All generations believe that the youngest generations – Generation Y and Generation Z – are the most narcissistic generations and the most more titrated.

"However, Generation Y and Generation Z do not like this characterization and believe it less than previous generations."

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The former star of the fight slammed the younger generation – whom he nicknamed "Snowflake Generation" – accusing him of "driving us back" in a new interview.

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