APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Narcissism and Depression As Responses to Shame in Young Children
- 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