Mediation effect of narcissism on the relationship between empathy and the quality of interpersonal relationships.
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This study examined the mediatory role of narcissism on the relationship between empathy and the quality of interpersonal relationships. A sample of 609 university students (165 males, 399 females, 45 unknown) were included in this study. All participants completed the Emotional Empathy Scale (EES), the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP), and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI). The results showed that empathy and narcissism had significant positive and negative correlation with the quality of interpersonal relationships, respectively. The results of path analysis revealed that narcissism mediated the relationship between empathy and the quality of interpersonal relationships.
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People affected by narcissistic personality disorder have issues in emotional, but not cognitive, empathy, possibly because reading others' emotions might be useful to reach personal purposes.
“Ritter et al. (17) demonstrated that people affected by NPD have issues in emotional, but not cognitive empathy, possibly because reading others’ emotions might be useful to reach personal purposes (31).”
From The dark side of empathy in narcissistic personality disorder (2023) · cites this paper as [31]
The Discussion (page unavailable) describes narcissism as involving reduced empathy and exploitation of others, which supports the broad idea of self-serving interpersonal behavior. It does not say that people with NPD retain cognitive but not emotional empathy, or that they read others’ emotions to achieve personal purposes; the study also notes that its participants were university students. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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- Authors
- Khodabakhsh, M. R., & Besharat, M. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Tehran (IR)
- Corresponding author
- Khodabakhsh, Mohammad Reza
- Venue
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011
- Volume
- 30
- Pages
- 902-906
- ISSN
- 1877-0428 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2078204236
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 41
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- 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 13.16
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- doi.org
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- Locations
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Keywords
- narcissism, empathy, affective empathy, interpersonal relationships, relationship quality, mediating effect, university students
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