Origins of narcissism in children

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3659-3662

  Brummelman, Eddie ^a,b   Thomaes, Sander ^b,c   Nelemans, Stefanie A ^b   De Castro, Bram Orobio ^b   Overbeek, Geertjan ^a   Bushman, Brad J ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Childhood narcissism; Childhood self esteem; Parental overvaluation; Parental warmth; Socialization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; NARCISSISM; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL OVERVALUATION; PARENTAL WARMTH; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY; AGE; ALGORITHM; EGO DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NARCISSISM; PARENTING; PARENTS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84961291227     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420870112     Document Type: Article

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