Are youths' feelings of entitlement always "bad"?: Evidence for a distinction between exploitive and non-exploitive dimensions of entitlement

Journal of Adolescence

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 521-529

  Lessard, Jared ^a   Greenberger, Ellen ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^a   Farruggia, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

College students; Entitlement; Personality; Prosocial traits; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COLLEGE STUDENT; ENTITLEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; ORIENTATION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOPATHY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SELF PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955736685     PISSN: 01401971     EISSN: 10959254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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