Overt narcissism, covert narcissism, and self-concept clarity: Predictors of juvenile aggression

Aggression research demonstrates that overt narcissism measured by the Narcissistic Personality Inventory predicts circumscribed, overt aggression in response to ego threat. Additionally, overt narcissism paired with low self-concept clarity predicts other forms of aggression. Because aggression research largely ignores covert narcissism and covert forms of aggression in adolescent males, the current quantitative, correlational study investigates overt narcissism, covert narcissism, and self-concept clarity as predictors of overt and covert aggression in 103 12- to 17- year-old males in the United States. Multiple regression analyses reveal that low self-concept clarity, operationalized as unstable self-view, is significantly related to both overt and covert aggression (p < .01).; Keywords. narcissism, overt narcissism, covert narcissism, self-concept clarity, aggression, overt aggression, covert aggression, indirect aggression, juvenile aggression.