Narcissistic Self-Enhancement

The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 309-318

  Wallace, Harry M ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Narcissism; Narcissistic Personality Inventory; Self enhancement; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886023615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118093108.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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