Narcissism and Defending Self-Esteem. An Exploratory Study based on Self-characterizations | Zendy

Guido Veronese | Zendy; Rossella Procaccia | Zendy; Giovanni Maria Ruggiero | Zendy; Sandra Sassaroli | Zendy; M Castiglioni | Zendy

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Narcissism and Defending Self-Esteem. An Exploratory Study based on Self-characterizations

Author(s) -

Guido Veronese,

Rossella Procaccia,

Giovanni Maria Ruggiero,

Sandra Sassaroli,

M Castiglioni

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the open psychology journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.207

H-Index - 11

ISSN - 1874-3501

DOI - 10.2174/1874350101508010038

Subject(s) - grandiosity , narcissism , psychology , self esteem , narrative , social psychology , self enhancement , dimension (graph theory) , relaxation (psychology) , analogy , journaling file system , developmental psychology , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , data file , mathematics , database , computer science , pure mathematics

The present qualitative study aims at investigating the role of socio-relational variables in the construction of threats to self-esteem, grandiosity, and relaxation in a non-clinical sample of 35 young university students. The work provides fresh experimental evidence of the structural analogy observed in clinical settings between constructions of threat to self-esteem and grandiose fantasies. We hypothesize that the relational dimension would be more strongly present than either biological or psychological dimensions.The results show that descriptions of relaxation differ significantly from their characterizations of the other two domains. Specifically we found greater continuity and narrative connection between the aspects of threat and grandiosity, while the domain of relaxation showed a more "isolated" pattern.

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