Narcissism has been shown to be associated with a lack of trust in others, but little is known about the factors that may play role tendency for narcissistic individuals mistrust others. The present research examined whether associations specific personality features had social were mediated by worldviews. A large study Iranian community members (N = 3,446; mean age 34.28 years) revealed antago...

The following case study illustrates a client-centered, cognitive-behavioral approach to the psychological treatment of Mr. M, a 41-year-old male diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, a mood disorder from Lyme disease, and narcissistic personality disorder. Mr. M’s personality difficulties are conceptualized as representing compensatory narcissism, a strategic way of coping with feelings of inse...

Psychoanalytic theories and clinical case studies of patients with narcissistic character pathology were most infl uential in outlining the conceptualization and description of the narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) when it was fi rst included as a diagnostic category in the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, (DSM-III) in 1980. This was eloquently summarize...

Areas of convergence and divergence between the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Terry, 1988) and the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI; Pincus et al., 2009) were evaluated in a sample of 586 college students. Summary scores for the NPI and PNI were not strongly correlated (r = .22) but correlations between certain subscales of these two inventories were larger (e.g., r = ...

Peer nominations of pathological personality traits were collected on 1442 freshmen participating in a study regarding personality and 283 students who initially provided consent to participate but failed to show up for the assessment. Ten peer-based personality disorder scales and eight IIP-64 scales were entered into two separate multiple logistic regression procedures to predict the probabil...

This study examined the relationship between narcissism and the use of daydreams and fantasy in samples of 129 and 193 subjects. In sample 1, it was found that (1) narcissistic individuals experience achievement, heroic, sexual, hostile, self-revelation, and future-oriented daydreams; and (2) these six types of daydreams represent a coherent "narcissistic" fantasy style. In sample 2, narcissist...

Most research on narcissism has been conducted using the narcissistic personality inventory (NPI). However, the generalizability of findings from the NPI to narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is unknown. The current study uses two samples (48 clinical outpatients; 49 undergraduates) to address this question by examining the correlations between the NPI and interview ratings of NPD. The pro...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlations between the narcissistic personality trait, measured with the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, and proneness to shame and guilt, measured with the Shame-Guilt Proneness Scale. Participants were 165 students (83 men, 82 women), aged 19-30 years. Pearson product-moment correlations, with computations comparing NPI Total score with each of ...