Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome?

Re:Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome? by rhacker on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:40AM (#18310269)

This is my point of view: Everyone is a narcissist maximally. It's not a spectrum, just a maximum state that is always on, always self preserving, but personality differs quite a bit. Personality causes others to perceive others as being more or less narcissistic. In other words we started using the word narcissistic to start describing personality types.

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Re:Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome? by Regardsyjc on Friday October 26, 2018 @03:02PM (#18311905)

I've read that narcissism is a spectrum. It's good to have healthy amounts of narcissism, it is only bad when you're on the wrong side of the spectrum.

For everyone in this thread freaking out about potentially being a narcissist, I highly recommend this book from a Harvard Medical School psychologist. Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad-and Surprising Good-About Feeling Special by Dr. Craig Malkin. Here's his test.

http://www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-narcissism-test

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Re:Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome? by thr0awaz on Friday October 26, 2018 @01:07PM (#18311085)

no... there really are people out there that really think they're better than you, on an existential level, and that the only reason you're better at any one thing than them is because they haven't gotten around to doing it better than you yet.

The short test for narcissism is: "Are you a narcissist?" Actual, pathological, narcissists answer 'yes' so often that it's almost useful as a diagnostic tool. Most people have some idea of their shortcomings.

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Re:Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome? by barberousse on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:23PM (#18311636)

>Actual, pathological, narcissists answer 'yes' so often that it's almost useful as a diagnostic too

Citation?

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Re:Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome? by thr0awaz on Saturday October 27, 2018 @07:47PM (#18318330)

https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/08/06/it-takes-just-one-q...

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In a series of 11 experiments involving more than 2,200 people of all ages, the researchers found they could reliably identify narcissistic people by asking them this exact question (including the note):

To what extent do you agree with this statement: “I am a narcissist.” (Note: The word “narcissist” means egotistical, self-focused, and vain.)

Participants rated themselves on a scale of one (not very true of me) to seven (very true of me).

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Results showed that people’s answer to this question lined up very closely with several other validated measures of narcissism, including the widely used Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI).

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