ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
The Relationship between Grandiose and Vulnerable (Hypersensitive) Narcissism.
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- Narcissism and Wellbeing: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2026Pooled it
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- How personality functioning relates to psychological distress and behavioral attitudes during the Covid-19 pandemic.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- A Narcissism/Vanity Distinction? Reassessing Vanity Using a Modern Model of Narcissism Based on Pride, Empathy, and Social Behaviors.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Validation of the German Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory and Construction of a Brief Form Using Ant Colony Optimization.Assessment · 2023Article
- Do highly sensitive persons display hypersensitive narcissism? Similarities and differences in the nomological networks of sensory processing sensitivity and vulnerable narcissism.Journal of clinical psychology · 2023Article
- Human enhancement and personality: A new approach towards investigating their relationship.Heliyon · 2022Article
- The role of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism on mask wearing and vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Narcissistic Personality and Its Relationship with Post-Traumatic Symptoms and Emotional Factors: Results of a Mediational Analysis Aimed at Personalizing Mental Health Treatment.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder-Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- Lay theories of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Cortisol reactivity to psychosocial stress in vulnerable and grandiose narcissists: An exploratory study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Narcissism on interpersonal circumplex model: Reactions to imaginary abandonment and rejection.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Effects of Self-Esteem on Self-Viewing: An Eye-Tracking Investigation on Mirror Gazing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Narcissism in independent and interdependent cultures.Personality and individual differences · 2021Article
- Narcissistic traits in young people and how experiencing shame relates to current attachment challenges.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- It's Not That Great Anymore: The Central Role of Defense Mechanisms in Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Can neuroscience help to understand narcissism? A systematic review of an emerging field.Personality neuroscience · 2021Review
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Abstract
Narcissistic grandiosity is characterized by overt expressions of feelings of superiority and entitlement, while narcissistic vulnerability reflects hypersensitivity and introversive self-absorbedness. Clinical evidence suggests that grandiosity is accompanied by vulnerable aspects, pointing to a common foundation. Subclinical personality research, however, views grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as independent traits. Grandiose narcissism displays substantial correlation with extraversion, while vulnerable narcissism correlates highly with introversion. We investigated if (1) controlling for intro-/extraversion might reveal a "common core" of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, and if (2) the correlation between both aspects might be higher at higher levels of narcissism. Latent variable structural equation modeling and segmented regression analysis confirmed these hypotheses in a large non-clinical sample (
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