Kathreena Bernadine M. Pedrealba
I Love ME: Why does this modern day digital age lead adolescents to narcissism?
Narcissism is defined by the Oxford dictionary as "Excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one's physical appearance; in Psychology, it is defined as an Extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type. Adolescents today or as many would like to call them: ‘Millennials' have been classified as self-entitled, impatient and most of all narcissistic.
Subrahmanyam and Greenfield (2008) state that new media are an important social variable for today's youth, and that the physical and virtual worlds are psychologically connected. In that way, the virtual world serves as a playground for developmental issues from the physical world such as identity construction and expression. Self-presentation is a way of dealing with identity construction and expression. (Graaf, 2011) This shows us the important social media plays in today's youth, how much it actually influences the development of their personalities and different character traits and how they interact with other people.
The …show more content…
Therefore, the growth of these social media platforms and their users may suggest that there is some sort of correlation between the amount of Adolescent's who may rely on social media to feed the attention and approval and/or admiration they need to help maintain their self-esteems. These online relationships should appeal to narcissists, who are typically unable or unwilling to form deep or ‘‘strong tie'' connections that require emotional investments, such as face-to-face relationships and friendships (Campbell, 1999; Campbell & Foster, 2002; Bergman et al,
I Love ME: Why does this modern day digital age lead adolescents to narcissism?
Narcissism is defined by the Oxford dictionary as "Excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one's physical appearance; in Psychology, it is defined as an Extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type. Adolescents today or as many would like to call them: ‘Millennials' have been classified as self-entitled, impatient and most of all narcissistic.
Subrahmanyam and Greenfield (2008) state that new media are an important social variable for today's youth, and that the physical and virtual worlds are psychologically connected. In that way, the virtual world serves as a playground for developmental issues from the physical world such as identity construction and expression. Self-presentation is a way of dealing with identity construction and expression. (Graaf, 2011) This shows us the important social media plays in today's youth, how much it actually influences the development of their personalities and different character traits and how they interact with other people.
The …show more content…
Therefore, the growth of these social media platforms and their users may suggest that there is some sort of correlation between the amount of Adolescent's who may rely on social media to feed the attention and approval and/or admiration they need to help maintain their self-esteems. These online relationships should appeal to narcissists, who are typically unable or unwilling to form deep or ‘‘strong tie'' connections that require emotional investments, such as face-to-face relationships and friendships (Campbell, 1999; Campbell & Foster, 2002; Bergman et al,