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Understanding narcissism and self-esteem in children
| Title: | Understanding narcissism and self-esteem in children: proposing a new conceptualization of narcissism. |
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| Name(s): |
Evans, Rachel. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Department of Psychology |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Issued: | 2009 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | ix, 44 p. : ill. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | This study examined the empirical relationship between narcissism and self-esteem in an attempt to evaluate competing conceptualizations of narcissism. Participants were 236 children (mean age 11.3 years) in the fourth through eighth grades. Counter to earlier conceptions, which characterized narcissism as very high self-esteem, narcissism and self-esteem were slightly negatively correlated. Also, narcissism predicted several adjustment variables, including aggression. None of these relationships was mediated by self-esteem. Lastly, self-esteem moderated the relationship between narcissism and aggression in boys. Taken together, these lines of evidence point to a new conceptualization of narcissism, modeled after self-discrepancy theory, in which narcissism is conceptualized as grandiosity in the ideal self. Implications of this proposal and directions for future research are discussed. | |
| Identifier: | 319832019 (oclc), 186767 (digitool), FADT186767 (IID), fau:2914 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Rachel Evans. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Self-esteem in children Narcissism -- Philosophy Identity (Psychology) Affect (Psychology) Self (Philosophy) Borderline personality disorders in children |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186767 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
