Abstract
Narcissistic personality traits have been extensively studied in foreign countries. However, there is little domestic related research on it. We use a questionnaire survey to analyze the correlations of narcissistic level and negative mentoring experiences. This study will examine the effects of graduate students’ narcissistic personality traits and negative mentoring experiences that graduate students have experienced. 301 graduate students of a 985 university have participated in the survey. Finally, we found that the level of narcissism has a positive impact on the degree of the negative mentoring experiences they experience. In the five dimensions of negative mentoring experiences, level of narcissism has the greatest positive effect on distancing behavior than other dimensions, while the minimal positive effect on general dysfunction. In addition, we also discuss the relationship between the level of narcissism and the quality of mentor student relationship, intention to maintain the relationship. We hope that this paper could provide valuable reference for improving the quality of graduate education.
Highlights
If someone had presented at least five points, he would have been diagnosed as narcissistic personality disorder, but only when the symptoms reached extreme performance, considered as pathological narcissism (Huang, 2005), while reflecting as a personality trait when these behaviors were performed at a weaker level
This paper studies the impact of narcissistic personality trait on every dimension of negative guiding experience, its overall level and five dimensions in detail, thereby affecting the overall level of negative guiding experience (Ragins, 1999)
In other words, alienated behavior sensed by the students is the most frequent one in 5 dimensions of negative guiding experience, this accords with Eby (2000) and other people’s result of empirical study
Summary
With aggressive personality traits, tend to have the characteristics of thinking more, good communication skills, strong insight and others (Yuan, 2012) They are better at asking questions, and able to understand the instructor’s introduction and guidance more quickly so as to achieve sound guidance. With narcissistic personality traits, because of their arrogance, and other special privileged guiding nature, may have unrealistic expectations to the mentors, and feel a negative experience. This paper will analyze the impact of narcissistic personality traits on the graduates’ negative experiences of guidance in depth, expecting to provide a valuable basis for the reform of mentoring from a new perspective, thereby contributing to improving the quality of graduate education
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