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Importance of the Research Topic

Bernerth, J. B. (2020). Does the narcissist (and those around him/her) pay a price for being narcissistic? An empirical study of leaders’ narcissism and well-being. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-14.

The author discusses whether the narcissist undergoes a cost for being narcissistic by utilizing leaders’ narcissism. The author explores the existing relationship between leaders’ narcissism and subordinates’ and leaders’ well-being at the group and individual levels. The author finds the leaders’ narcissism as negatively concerning leader-member exchange, which relates to subordinates’ emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction. The article also describes that leaders’ narcissism is negatively concerned with perceived self-worth, job satisfaction, and identification. The article is from a reliable source and is recent; this ensures its credibility for research information. I will use the article as part of the background of my literature review to show the importance of my research topic to scholars.

Brailovskaia, J., & Margraf, J. (2019). I present myself and have a lot of Facebook-friends–Am I a happy narcissist! Personality and Individual Differences, 148, 11-16.

The authors provide detailed information on being a happy narcissist through having many Facebook friends. They highlight that Facebook use has turned out to be a part of daily life. The article further explains that the high popularity of Facebook is by being associated with a specific personality and subjective well-being traits. Hence, the authors found an active Facebook use essential positive association with narcissism and subjective happiness. The article is recent and reliable; this ensures its credibility for research. I will use the article in the introduction of my research proposal to demonstrate the importance of the topic to the general public, especially to show why narcissistic people are intensive active Facebook users.

Rogoza, R. (2018). Narcissist unmasked. Looking for the narcissistic decision-making mechanism: a contribution from the Big Five. Social psychological bulletin, 13(2), 1-25.

The author describes narcissists to examine the mechanism of narcissistic-decision making. The author highlights that the rivalry concept and narcissistic admiration is a narcissism model that disentangles its dark and bright sides by developing rivalry and admiration strategies. The author further explains that even though it presents the narcissist functioning and is promising, there is limited information concerning the trigger mechanisms to give illustrations of how the rivalry and admiration strategy is chosen. The article is recent and from a reliable information source; hence it is a credible information source for my research. I will use the article to show the significance of my research topic to the general public and scholars in developing a narcissistic decision-making model.

Narcissism and Antisocial Behavior

Alexander, M. B., Gore, J., & Estep, C. (2021). How need for power explains why narcissists are antisocial. Psychological reports, 124(3), 1335-1352.

The authors describe the need for power as a possible mediating factor existing between antisocial behavior and narcissism. The authors carried out two research where; the first study involved undergraduate students as participants. The authors found that there was full mediation by the need for power in the interconnection between aggression and narcissism. Using adults in the second study, the authors found multiple narcissism forms positively related to criminal behavior. The article is from psychological reports, a reliable information source; this ensures its credibility. I will use the article to examine the theme of narcissism and antisocial behavior in my proposal’s literature review.

Jones, B. D., Woodman, T., Barlow, M., & Roberts, R. (2017). The darker side of personality: Narcissism predicts moral disengagement and antisocial behavior in sport. The Sport Psychologist, 31(2), 109-116.

The authors detail the personality’s darker side. They describe that narcissism predicts antisocial behavior and moral disengagement, especially in sports. The authors explain a lack of literature concerning the exploration of personality based on undesirable behaviors. They further explain that narcissism is negatively based on empathy and positively based on entitlement feelings; narcissists can behave antisocially and disengage morally. Hence, the authors detail that the indirect effect is essential in controlling sport type and motivational climate. The article’s recency and reliability make it credible for research. I will use the article to discuss narcissism and antisocial behavior in my proposal’s literature review.

March, E., Grieve, R., Wagstaff, D., & Slocum, A. (2020). Exploring anger as a moderator of narcissism and antisocial behaviour on Tinder. Personality and Individual Differences, 161, 109961.

The authors examine Tinder to investigate how anger moderates’ narcissism and antisocial behavior. Thus, due to a lack of literature concerning online antisocial behavior and narcissism, the authors applied the threatened egotism and aggression theory. They further discussed from the findings that anger was an essential moderator of every relationship between antisocial behavior and narcissism. Specifically, the article details that at high and average levels of anger, there existed considerable positive connections between narcissism and harassment, and aggression facets on Tinder. The article is recent and reliable; this makes it a credible information source. I will utilize the article to describe narcissism and antisocial behavior theme in my proposal’s literature review.

Narcissistic Traits

Nenadić, I., Lorenz, C., & Gaser, C. (2021). Narcissistic personality traits and prefrontal brain structure. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9.

The authors provide detailed information on narcissistic traits and the prefrontal brain structure. They highlight that narcissistic traits have been connected to functional and structural brain networks such as the insular cortex. The authors fail to observe any reliable links to specific facets of NPI (Narcissistic Personality Inventory) narcissism. In addition, the article provides new evidence concerning a relationship between narcissistic traits and variations in insular and prefrontal brain structure, overlapping past narcissism-related phenotypes, and functional studies such as social dominance. The article is recent and from a reliable source, thus credible as an information source for research. The article will be essential to me in discussing narcissistic traits in my research proposal’s literature review.

van Schie, C. C., Jarman, H. L., Huxley, E., & Grenyer, B. F. (2020). Narcissistic traits in young people: understanding the role of parenting and maltreatment. Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation, 7(1), 1-10.

The authors discuss narcissistic traits in young individuals. They highlight that heightened narcissism in young individuals typically contributes to mental health and interpersonal challenges strengthening the urge to understand its accompanying. The authors associated remembered overprotection from fathers and mothers with grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic traits. Hence, remembered childhood incidents of being overvalued and overprotected were related to higher pathological narcissism traits in young individuals. The authors further explain that these traits may emerge during treatment in the patient-therapist association. The article is from a reliable and current source, which ensures its credibility as an information source. I will use the article to demonstrate narcissistic traits in my research proposal.

van Schie, C. C., Jarman, H. L., Reis, S., & Grenyer, B. F. (2021). Narcissistic traits in young people and how experiencing shame relates to current attachment challenges. BMC psychiatry, 21(1), 1-10.

The authors describe how shame experience may contribute to grandiose and vulnerable pathological narcissism associated with positive and negative internalized models of others and self. They explain that young individuals having pathological narcissistic traits may contain many maladaptive strategies for relating with others and themselves. Also, the article discusses that young individuals having vulnerable narcissism traits struggle to become close to other people and show more shame. In addition, the authors detail higher grandiose narcissism traits as being associated with more self and other positive models. The article’s recency and reliability ensure its credibility. The article will be helpful to me in discussing narcissistic traits in my research proposal’s literature review.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Ronningstam, E. (2020). Internal processing in patients with pathological narcissism or narcissistic personality disorder: Implications for alliance building and therapeutic strategies. Journal of Personality Disorders.

The author describes the internal processing of various patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN). The author highlights that PN and NPD have fundamentally been recognized by noticeable external features like a condescending or critical attitude, attention seeking, and superiority. The author further explains that there has been the provision of valuable information by current research on neuropsychological that can provide therapeutic interventions for PN patients. Also, the author illustrates that internal processing in NPD or PN patients is mainly influenced by factors such as reflective ability and compromised emotion tolerance and processing. The article’s recency and reliability ensure its credibility as an information source. In my research proposal’s literature review, I will use the article to describe narcissistic personality disorders.

Weinberg, I., & Ronningstam, E. (2020). Dos and don’ts in treatments of patients with narcissistic personality disorder. Journal of personality disorders, 34(Supplement), 122-142.

The authors provide detailed information on what to be done and avoid during treatments for narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) patients. The authors identify various guiding principles in successful psychotherapies of NPD patients, such as anticipating challenges in maintaining and developing the treatment alliance and assisting patients in recognizing the direction and goals of their therapies. They also provide cautions against several typical pitfalls, such as directly challenging the patient’s grandiosity, overindulging the patient’s grandiosity, and being involved in a power tussle with the patient. The article is recent and from a reliable source, thus a credible information source. I will utilize the article to describe narcissistic personality disorder treatment guiding principles in my research proposal’s literature review.

Yakeley, J. (2018). Current understanding of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. BJPsych advances, 24(5), 305-315.

The author explores present narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and narcissism understand. The author reviews various historical contributions to the NPD and narcissism conceptualization, such as its development as a clinical diagnosis occurring within mental disorders’ DSM classification. The article also discusses the etiology and epidemiology of NPD. In addition, it presents difficulties in managing patients with notable narcissistic traits and summarizes the psychological therapies particularly developed for NPD patients’ treatment. The article is current and from a reliable source; this makes it a credible information source. The article will be helpful to me in describing narcissistic personality disorder in my research proposal’s literature review to offer a background to my research topic.

Possible Methodologies

Day, N. J., Townsend, M. L., & Grenyer, B. F. (2020). Living with pathological narcissism: a qualitative study. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 7(1), 1-14.

The authors conducted a qualitative study to describe the experiences of individuals with pathological narcissism. There were 2219 participants in the survey, where the researchers implemented a conservative data screening technique to ensure only appropriate participants for the research. The participants were required to fill in survey questions to provide information for the research. For instance, the authors questioned relatives of individuals with notable narcissistic traits to explain their relationships; former and current romantic partners. The article is current and reliable; this makes it a credible information source. The article will help me illustrate qualitative methodology in collecting and analyzing data in my research topic.

HAN, S. (2020). Theoretical Interdisciplinarity between Psychological Marketing Practice and Woman’s Narcissism in Distribution Channels. Journal of Distribution Science, 18(12), 101-109.

The author uses a qualitative methodology to describe how psychological marketing practices can marshal narcissism in women by portraying scarcity and urgency. Thus, the author conducts a content analysis by collecting data from different sources such as EBSCO, ProQuest, EBSCO/EBSCO, and ABI/INFORM. The article explains that the author utilized a qualitative analysis as it is more concise and versatile. In addition, the article investigated manifest and latent narcissism themes and psychological marketing concepts in order to find solutions to be used by leaders in initiating organizational changes. The author finds that narcissistic women fail to accept other individuals’ feelings. The article’s recency and reliability ensure its credibility. I will utilize the article to show qualitative methodology in collecting data for my research topic.

Jauk, E., Ulbrich, L., Jorschick, P., Höfler, M., Kaufman, S. B., & Kanske, P. (2022). The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: An individual data meta‐analysis. Journal of Personality, 90(5), 703-726.

The authors conduct an individual meta-analysis to describe the nonlinen relationship between vulnerable and grandiose narcissism. They extend and replicate the findings in an individual meta-analysis that is preregistered utilizing data from FFNI (Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory) and NPI (Narcissistic Personality Inventory) HSNS (Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale). The hypothesis present in the FFNI is found by the authors to have strong evidence, while weaker evidence is observed in the NPI/HSNS. The article is current and from a reliable source; this makes it a credible information source. I will utilize the article to demonstrate meta-analysis as a possible quantitative methodology for analyzing data in my research topic.