Symptom severity and mindreading in narcissistic personality disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Grandiose narcissism has been associated with poor ability to understand one's own mental states and the mental states of others. In particular, two manifestations of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) can be explained by poor mindreading abilities: absence of symptomatic subjective distress and lack of empathy.

Methods

We conducted two studies to investigate the relationships between mindreading capacity, symptomatic subjective distress and narcissistic personality. In the first study (N = 246), we compared mindreading capacities and symptomatic distress in three outpatient samples: narcissistic patients (NPD); patients with other Personality Disorders (PD); patients without PD. In the second study (N = 1357), we explored the relationships between symptomati

SUBMITTER: Bilotta E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6093639 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature