The aetiology of non-clinical narcissism: Clarifying the role of adverse childhood experiences and parental overvaluation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 154, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Nguyen, Kim Thy ^a   Shaw, Lauren ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aetiology narcissism; Grandiose narcissism; Self report adverse childhood experiences; Self report parental overvaluation; Vulnerable narcissism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074297894     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.109615     Document Type: Article

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