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.

Veronese, G., Procaccia, R., Ruggiero, G., Sassaroli, S., Castiglioni, M. (2015). Narcissism and Defending Self-Esteem. An Exploratory Study based on Self-characterizations. THE OPEN PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL, 8(1), 38-43 [10.2174/1874350101508010038].

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

VERONESE, GUIDO
Primo
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CASTIGLIONI, MARCO
Ultimo
2015

Abstract

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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Grandiose fantasies, threat to self-esteem, non-pathological narcissism, self-characterzation, qualitative methods.
English
2015
8
1
38
43
open
Veronese, G., Procaccia, R., Ruggiero, G., Sassaroli, S., Castiglioni, M. (2015). Narcissism and Defending Self-Esteem. An Exploratory Study based on Self-characterizations. THE OPEN PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL, 8(1), 38-43 [10.2174/1874350101508010038].
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