This article demonstrates the validity and utility of conceptualizing narcissistic personality in terms of relative approach-avoidance motivation. Across three studies (N = 1,319), narcissism predicted high approach and low avoidance motivation. That is, narcissists reported being strongly motivated to approach desirable outcomes but only weakly motivated to avoid negative outcomes. Relative ap...

This study aims to look at the relationship between narcissistic personality and self-esteem among adolescents towards use of social media such as Instagram Facebook. To achieve this goal, researcher conducted a field on 200 respondents who are in private universities around Bangi Kajang, Selangor. uses quantitative method that is data collection through distribution questionnaire containing 35...

BACKGROUND Hypnotic susceptibility is one of the stable characteristics of individuals, but not closely related to the personality traits such as those measured by the five-factor model in the general population. Whether it is related to the personality disorder functioning styles remains unanswered. METHODS In 77 patients with personality disorders and 154 healthy volunteers, we administered...

There is a lack of consensus surrounding the conceptualization of narcissism. The present study compared two measures of narcissism-one used in clinical settings (Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire, PDQ-4+; Hyler, 1994) and one used in social-personality research (Narcissistic Personality Inventory, NPI; Raskin & Terry, 1988)-across two samples. Sample 1 (N=271) was composed of undergraduates...

We report the negative emotional state as pessimistic mood of a case with narcissistic personality disorder during the period of narcissistic decompensation. In addition, we identified the clinical differences between pessimistic mood and depressive disorder. An 28-year-old unmarried woman experienced herself, her life and the external object as futile and disappointing after repeated failure t...

lthough they are concepts with long psychoanalytic pedigrees, A narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder only recently have become topics of concern not just for psychoanalysis but for empirical research in psychology and psychiatry as well. For the most part, research in this area has comprised essentially descriptive or atheoretical attempts to identify and measure these constructs,' ...

We analysed T1-weighted MRI scans using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and tract-based spatial statistics (TBBS) on diffusion tensor images (DTI) in narcissistic personality disorder (NaPD) patients and healthy controls. Grey matter deficits include right prefrontal and bilateral medial prefrontal/anterior cingulate cortices, and decreased fractional anisotropy in right frontal lobe white matter.