Narcissism, Self-understanding and Anxiety among Youth

Abstract

Narcissism can be said to be the inability to grasp and understand others feeling and disregarding their emotions while only thinking about themselves. Self-understanding refers to how well one knows about themselves and can understand their feelings, emotions, strengths, weaknesses, attitudes, behaviour, and so on. An intense sense of unease, dread, or fear is called anxiety. The aim of the present study is to examine the relationship between, narcissism, self-understanding and anxiety among youth as well as gender differences in all three. Data was collected from youth that is, 16 to 25 years (N=100; 50 male 50 female) in offline mode by using the scales related to all three variables. The finding revealed that there was non-significant negative relationship between narcissism and anxiety. There was non-significant positive relationship between narcissism and self-understanding. There was significant negative relationship between self-understanding and anxiety among youth. There were significant gender differences found in narcissism, and self-understanding, while non-significant in anxiety among youth.

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