«What we find in the 2016 presidential election is charisma appears to counterbalance the negative effects
of a narcissistic personality in people's perceptions of a leader and going ahead and voting for that person,» said Ethlyn Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of management in FAU's College of Business, who coauthored the study with faculty from California State University San Marcos, Nova Southeastern University and the University of Sydney.
Narcissism is only considered a pathological phenomenon if the condition has a negative impact on the patient and if he or she develops
symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder.
For the purposes of this research, the researchers focused on individuals who exhibit subclinical narcissism, rather than a clinical
diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
The most useful feature in discriminating narcissistic personality disorder from histrionic, antisocial, and borderline personality disorders, in which the interactive styles are coquettish, callous, and needy, respectively, is the grandiosity
characteristic of narcissistic personality disorder.
The essential
feature of narcissistic personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts.
It's all quite thought - provoking... as are my other crazy ponderings about God being bi-polar with His grandiose violent behavior in the Old Testament and somewhat paradoxical catatonic tranquility in the New or my atheist son's idea that God, if he exists at all, certainly exhibits
traits of narcissistic personality disorder.
[jounal] Raskin, R. / 1998 / A principal components
analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and further evidence of its construct validity / Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 54 (3): 890 ~ 902