Students Narcissistic Personality Self-esteem And Swb

With the generalization of education and development of economy, our society has increasingly emphasized on personal values and self-realization, there seems to becoming more and more "narcissism". When narcissism is characterized in a extreme and pathological way, it constitutes a narcissistic personality disorder. Compared to the normal population, narcissism was seen as a personality trait. The development of a sound character on undergraduates is now generally a focus of attention in education. Therefore, this paper attempts to explore the narcissistic personality on undergraduates.As a personality trait, narcissistic personality is usually defined as showing a self-inflation, the illusions of unlimited power, beauty and success, the extremely sensitive to criticism, strong sense of privileges and use nature of human relationships.Research on narcissistic personality in foreign countries has been widely concerned, and generated a great deal of valuable results. However, research on narcissistic personality in our country has only just begun, in addition to small quantities of sociology and literary point of view, the psychological professional research on narcissistic Personality is Relative low. This paper aims to expand China's research on narcissistic personality in the field of psychology, and provide a theoretical basis for the training of college student's healthy personality. On the basis of the review of lots of literature, this study proposed the theoretical assumptions of narcissistic personality structure. This study translated and revised the Chinese version of overt narcissism personality inventory and covert narcissism personality inventory in undergraduates. In order to inspect the general characteristics of college student's narcissistic Personality and understand the impact of narcissistic personality on self-esteem and subjective well-being in undergraduates, this study also did a survey research on college students with the use of the new revised inventory. The results showed that:(1) The revised Chinese version of undergraduates overt narcissism personality inventory and undergraduates covert narcissism personality inventory has good reliability and validity.(2) In overt narcissism, male college students major in arts are significantly higher than male college students major in science; In covert narcissism, college students major in science are significantly higher than college students major in arts. Overt and covert narcissistic personality are not significantly different in gender. There is no significant differences in overt and covert narcissistic personality whether or not only one child in family. In overt narcissism, there is no significant difference between different grades; in covert narcissism, there exists significant differences between grades, and the degree of covert narcissism in grade three is significantly higher than it in other grades.(3) Overt narcissism is positively related to self-esteem and subjective well-being; covert narcissism is negatively related to self-esteem and subjective well-being. Overt and covert narcissism not only can affect subjective well-being directly, but also can indirectly affect it through the regulation of self-esteem.