Self-Entitled College Students: Contributions of Personality, Parenting, and Motivational Factors

Autor/inn/en	Greenberger, Ellen; Lessard, Jared; Chen, Chuansheng; Farruggia, Susan P.
Titel	Self-Entitled College Students: Contributions of Personality, Parenting, and Motivational Factors
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37 (2008) 10, S.1193-1204 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-008-9284-9
Schlagwörter	College Students; Student Attitudes; Grade Point Average; Incentives; Academic Achievement; Anxiety; Personality; Parenting Styles; Student Motivation; Measures (Individuals); Ethnicity; Correlation; Cheating + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Anreiz; Schulleistung; Angst; Personalität; Schulische Motivation; Messdaten; Ethnizität; Korrelation; Prellen
Abstract	Anecdotal evidence suggests an increase in entitled attitudes and behaviors of youth in school and college settings. Using a newly developed scale to assess "academic entitlement" (AE), a construct that includes expectations of high grades for modest effort and demanding attitudes towards teachers, this research is the first to investigate the phenomenon systematically. In two separate samples of ethnically diverse college students comprised largely of East and Southeast Asian American, followed by Caucasians, Latinos, and other groups (total N = 839, age range 18-25 years), we examined the personality, parenting, and motivational correlates of AE. AE was most strongly related to exploitive attitudes towards others and moderately related to an overall sense of entitlement and to narcissism. Students who reported more academically entitled attitudes perceived their parents as exerting achievement pressure marked by social comparison with other youth and materially rewarding good grades, scored higher than their peers in achievement anxiety and extrinsic motivation, and engaged in more academic dishonesty. AE was not significantly associated with GPA. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10