Narcissistic Grandiosity and Narcissistic Vulnerability
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A review of the clinical, social/personality psychology, and psychiatric literature identifies two broad themes of narcissistic dysfunction. Narcissistic grandiosity involves maladaptive self-enhancement strategies reflecting arrogant, conceited, and domineering attitudes and behaviors. Narcissistic vulnerability involves regulatory impairments creating self, affect, and behavioral dysregulation in response to ego threats or self-enhancement failures.
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Pathological narcissism is multifaceted, with existing empirical literature consistently highlighting the existence of both grandiose and vulnerable phenotypes.
“It is also multifaceted in nature, with existing empirical literature consistently highlighting the existence of both grandiose and vulnerable phenotypes [28, 67, 84].”
From “It’s not you, it’s me”: identity disturbance as the main contributor to interpersonal problems in pathological narcissism (2023) · cites this paper as [67]
Vulnerable narcissism is mainly manifested in avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and is related to avoidant attachment and maladaptive, impulsive and avoidant ways of coping with stress.
“Vulnerable narcissism is mainly manifested in the avoidant and obsessive-compulsive PD [76, 81] and is related to avoidant attachment and maladaptive, impulsive and avoidant ways of coping with stress [54].”
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- Authors
- Pincus, A. L., & Roche, M. J.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Venue
- The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-07-20
- Pages
- 31-40
- OpenAlex
- W1564844155
- Cited by
- 217
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
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- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- narcissism, narcissistic grandiosity, narcissistic vulnerability, self-enhancement, ego threat, self-regulation, emotional dysregulation, behavioral dysregulation, personality dysfunction
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