APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Narcissism and Depression As Responses to Shame in Young Children

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Paul Park
    Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Michael Lewis
    Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Abstract

Shame is a highly painful emotion, seeing the global self as defective. This study examines narcissism and depression as responses to shame. In a success-failure experiment, children who show excessive pride in success and failure and those who show no pride are associated with narcissistic and depressive characteristics.

Emotion

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