2 points:

There’s a whole host of research dating back to the 90s showing that narcissism’s been on the rise since we’ve starting measuring it, with both millennials and zoomers as narcissistic as the celebrities of older generations. So this a societal trend and showing it also exists in a subset of people(astrology fans) isn’t saying much

Also, the type of person that fills out personality surveys on Facebook is also inclined towards narcissism in the first place, not only with social media breeding self-centeredness and a sense of your life being the center of the universe generally (see “main character syndrome”) but also since indicates a person that sees themself as an interesting object worth of studying and a high degree of self importance in the first place.

Most of the increase in narcissism is attributed to more increasingly individualist cultural values and I think that's correct. Things like social media and less religiosity and church attendence probably have to do with it or are at least indicators of it.

However I do think that these more individualist values didn't come from nowhere and have a material economic cause. Most of the increase in narcissism has been observed in student cohorts between the 1970s and 2010s and this is also the time period of the rise of neoliberalism, which on an economic level promotes individualist values.

This study that looks at the difference in narcissism in East- and West Germanyevidence for that hypothesis that the increase in narcissism is due to economic factors.

Who cares and also duh lol

These 2 points don't go against the findings of the study because it looks at the dfference in narcissism between people who do and those who don't believe in astrology. The possible effect of those two factors you named would apply to both of those groups and wouldn't be able to explain the difference between those groups.

Astrology is just polytheism and peoples attempts to feed the spiritual void their innate being requires... but dont want to fill it with belief in God if belief in God comes with responsibilities as the human feels arrogance to be able to do what it wants and shouldnt have to listen to external factors in decision making

so the results are no surprise, it didnt need a study to come to that conclusion but it is welcome

A lot of people saying it didn't need a study should know that a lot of things in psychology that seem to be intuitively true are often proven not to be in studies

discussing astrology with american women has to be the most mind numbing exercise possible

maybe its just bc the majority of women I met who believe in that s*** are the most disenfranchised, dry women ever. Like it literally acts as a personality and almost a reason to keep going it seems like. to each their own but ffs

the white washed spiritualism with crystals, astrology, "bad vibes", all that bullshit is becoming almost as putrid as any sector in our cultural zeitgeist

preach my nigga.

Did we really need a study for this, most sane people already knew this

"A lot of people saying it didn't need a study should know that a lot of things in psychology that seem to be intuitively true are often proven not to be in studies"

Getting bothered by other peoples beliefs about s*** like this is so lame. I don’t believe in the significance of astrological s*** but let people have their fun

It's not about people who just have fun with it and don't take it too seriously

Astrology isnt regarded as religion, let alone organized religion

Dam the guy dogging on psychology majors and trying to clown on student debt (which I don't have I'm going to college for free ) ran away who woulda thot

Plus it doesnt work on OP who studies in Europe

My girl did tarot and astrology but said once she was in a relationship with me she lost interest in all those things because they were just a coping mechanism for her anxiety which I helped allieviate

Im very glad she dropped them dont wanna hear my sign as an excuse for her doing anything weird

Crine

I been known this

Scratchin what did we say about telling ktt users the truth??

Imma find a ktt user and lie to him right now

Great post

Women who believe in astrology are the easiest to f***