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Beskrivelse
Examined the empirical relationship between narcissism and selfesteem
in an attempt to evaluate competing conceptualizations of narcissism. Participants
were 236 children (mean age 11.3 years) in the fourth through eighth grades. Counter to
earlier conceptions, which characterized narcissism as very high self-esteem, narcissism
and self-esteem were slightly negatively correlated. Also, narcissism predicted several
adjustment variables, including aggression. None of these relationships was mediated by
self-esteem. Lastly, self-esteem moderated the relationship between narcissism and
aggression in boys. Taken together, these lines of evidence point to a new
conceptualization of narcissism, modeled after self-discrepancy theory, in which
narcissism is conceptualized as grandiosity in the ideal self. Implications of this proposal
and directions for future research are discussed.
