Relationship between Narcissism and Self-Efficacy

Self Efficacy and
Narcissism

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Past Research...............................................................................................................................3
Testable Predictions.........................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The research being conducted here is to find relationship between narcissism and self-
efficacy. Narcissism refers to obtaining satisfaction from fulfilling ego of one’s self-image and
attributes that they have idealised (Zajenkowski and Szymaniak, 2019). Narcissism mainly is
divided into two parts one is Grandiose narcissism and second is Vulnerable narcissism (Amad,
Gray and Snowden, 2020). Earlier several researches have been undertaken about effect of
narcissism on self-efficacy, however thee gap is in relationship between narcissism and self-
efficacy in academic and workplace performance.
Past Research
There have several past researches that worked on identifying relationship between
narcissism and self-efficacy. In this some off the findings were identified by and there is no
research that work on identifying relationship between narcissism and self-efficacy in academic
and career or workplace self-efficacy. These are two very important aspect of life of individual.
Differential relations of grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism to emotion
dysregulation: Self-esteem matters by Hui Zhang, Yun Luo, Yimeng Zhao, Runzhu Zhang
and Zhenhong Wang
This research was aimed to explore effect of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism on
emotion dysregulation and examine medicating role of self-esteem on these associations.
To conduct this research 426 undergraduates completed self report measurements on both types
of narcissism along with self-esteem and emotional dysregulation (Zhang and et.al., 2017).
In this research 426 individuals participated among which 64% were female and average age of
participants was 18.7 years. Grandiose narcissism in this research was measured through 16 iten
of narcissism inventory. Vulnerable narcissism was evaluated through Hypersensitive narcissism
scale. Emotional dysregulation was assessed using difficulties in emotional regulation scale and
self esteem was measured through The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale.
Result of this study was that grandiose narcissism is positively associated with self-
esteem and negatively associated with emotional dysregulation. Vulnerable narcissism on the