A Study On The Relationship Between College Students' Critical Sensitivity And Their Relationship With Narcissistic Personality And Self - Esteem

Based on the previous empirical research, this research aims to translate and revise the Students’ Sensitivity to Criticism Scale which has a good degree of reliability and validity, and to investigate the characteristics of college students’ sensitivity of criticism. Then this research studies the relationship among narcissistic personality, sensitivity to criticism and self-esteem of college students. Frist, the research reviewed the theoretical research about sensitivity to criticism, narcissistic personality and self-esteem, specifically about foreign studies on the sensitivity to criticism. Second, the research revised the Sensitivity to Criticism Scale and analyzed the characteristics of college students’ sensitivity of criticism. Finally, this paper studied the relationship among the three variables, and analyzed the mediating effect of self-esteem between sensitivity to criticism and narcissistic personality. Selecting college students as subjects, this study used questionnaire survey to revise the Sensitivity to Criticism Scale and analyzed the relationship among narcissistic personality, sensitivity to criticism and self-esteem. The main conclusions are as follows:1. The Sensitivity to Criticism Scale tested in college students’ sample has good reliability and validity.2. The factors of individual background have no effect on college students’ sensitivity to criticism, for example, gender, birthplace, whether or not be only child.3. There is significantly relation between sensitivity to criticism and overt narcissism, while sensitivity to criticism has positive correlation with covert narcissism significantly and negative correlation with self-esteem significantly. On analysis of variance, those students with different level of self-esteem have significant differences. Those students with higher level of self-esteem have lower level of sensitivity to criticism. There is a significant difference of sensitivity to criticism among different level of narcissistic personality. Those students with higher level of overt narcissism have lower level of sensitivity to criticism, but the covert narcissism is exactly the opposite. Narcissistic personality, self-esteem can significantly predict the change of the sensitivity to criticism on regression analysis.4. The intermediary role of self-esteem.The results of mediation effect show that the self-esteem plays a part intermediary role between sensitivity to criticism and the two dimension of narcissistic personality. The proportion between the mediation effect and total effect are46.9%and20.0%respectively. These results show that the two dimensions of narcissistic personality can affect the change of sensitivity to criticism by self-esteem indirectly.