Abstract
Narcissism may describe as be in love with own self. The individual may have variety of such behavior that are unfavorable for society such as rudeness, aggressive and violent behavior, selfishness, blaming and discourage others on their own faults, carelessness toward other feelings and emotions, inflated sense of supremacy and self-importance. More likely to involve in crimes and conflicts. Although Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is the serious issue but very little amount of work was done on this issue. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of narcissistic traits in the general youth population .The randomly selected sample of 1145 individuals falls in age group 18 to 25 were selected to estimate the prevalence of NPD .The Narcissistic Personality inventory (NPI-40) based on DSM III criteria was used to find out the prevalence of Narcissism in Study group. The result showed high scores of NPI in youth population167 male (47.44%) and 346 females (43.63%) scored >20 numbers in NPI. But NPI can only show relative idea of the frequency of narcissism, by scoring high in NPI it could not say certainly that individual lie in category of narcissistic so there is necessitate to more work should be done on this least studied topic to evaluate the true picture of narcissistic behavior in population.
Highlights
There is much least work on personality disorders was done in our society it’s important to estimate the prevalence of personality disorders because it was concluded from several researches that the personality disorders are responsible for violent behaviors in adolescents
In order to estimate the prevalence of narcissistic behavior in youngsters we randomly select 1145 people which lie in age groups between 18 to 25
The study was survey based, the questionnaire was designed according to Narcissistic personality inventory(NPI).The NPI was designed by Raskin and Hall in1979 for the measurement of narcissism as a personality trait in social psychological research.NPI follow the DSM-III criteria to diagnose the narcissistic traits in study subjects
Summary
There is much least work on personality disorders was done in our society it’s important to estimate the prevalence of personality disorders because it was concluded from several researches that the personality disorders are responsible for violent behaviors in adolescents. The youngsters who are with a higher scoring of narcissistic, paranoid, and passive-aggressive symptoms are more susceptible to commit variety of violent acts such as arson, assault, breaking and entering, initiating physical fights, robbery, and threats to injure others during their adolescence and early adulthood. Personality disorders are the main reason of failure to keep maintain on personal relations so it leads to increase in frustration that cause violent and aggressive behavior. The symptoms of personality disorders are observed higher during adolescents and in early 20s.
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