Narcissistic traits in young people and how experiencing shame relates to current attachment challenges.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Young people with pathological narcissistic traits may have more maladaptive ways of relating to themselves and others. In this study, we investigated how the experience of shame may be a mechanism by which vulnerable and grandiose pathological narcissism relates to negative and positive internalised models of the self and others, manifested as attachment styles.

Methods

Participants (N = 348) were young people who reported on pathological narcissism, the experience of shame and their model of self and others (secure, dismissive, preoccupied and fearful attachment). Mediation of the experience of shame between vulnerable and grandiose narcissism on the one hand and secure, dismissive, preoccupied and fearful attachment on the other hand, was tested using a path mo

SUBMITTER: van Schie CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8112045 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature