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Pathological narcissism and psychosocial functioning
- Source :
- Personal Disord
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Pathological narcissism involves maladaptive efforts to regulate the self and is conceptualized by 2 key features: narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability. Prior research has found that narcissism is associated with poorer functioning over the long term, especially interpersonal functioning. Despite this, the specific contributions of grandiosity and vulnerability to different domains of functioning remain understudied. In particular, there has been scant literature investigating pathological narcissism and its effects on functioning in large clinical samples. Understanding how grandiosity and vulnerability each contributes to dysfunction will help inform the conceptualization, prognosis, and treatment recommendations, alike, for narcissism. This study examined the relations between narcissism and different domains of dysfunction in a sample of 288 current or recent psychiatric outpatients. Results suggest that narcissistic grandiosity is associated with specific deficits in interpersonal functioning, whereas vulnerability is associated with all forms of dysfunction. However, after accounting for the shared variance in the predictors, vulnerability continues to be predictive of all forms of dysfunction, whereas grandiosity serves as a modest protective factor. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
050103 clinical psychology
Vulnerability
Protective factor
050109 social psychology
Personality Disorders
Article
Interpersonal relationship
Narcissistic personality disorder
medicine
Narcissism
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Interpersonal Relations
Grandiosity
05 social sciences
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Personality disorders
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Psychosocial
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19492723
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Personality disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fa023ee2c8dc8b56f39589352aca45b9