The connection between narssism as a personality trait and subjective well-being

V sodobni družbi se vse pogosteje srečujemo z narcisizmom kot poglavitnim načinom delovanja, za katerega je značilen občutek grandiozne samopomembnosti, prepričanje o lastni izjemnosti, fantaziranje o moči, uspehu, lepoti in edinstvenosti. Narcističnim posameznikom lahko pripišemo samoobčudovanje, občutek večvrednosti in izkoriščevalnost, prav tako pa je zanje značilen močno napihnjen in pozitiven, a nerealen koncept selfa ter pomanjkanje zanimanja za oblikovanje intimnih odnosov. Znotraj koncepta narcisizma ločimo odkriti in prikriti narcisizem, ki se bistveno razlikujeta v korelacijah z različnimi psihološkimi koncepti. Odkriti narcisizem navadno dojemamo kot prilagojeno komponento narcisizma, prikriti narcisizem pa kot neprilagojeno. Koncept subjektivnega blagostanja se nanaša na posameznikovo subjektivno oceno o lastnem blagostanju in zajema zadovoljstvo z življenjem, pozitivni in negativni afekt. O visokem subjektivnem blagostanju lahko govorimo, ko posameznik doživlja življenjsko zadovoljstvo, je pogosto dobre volje in redko doživlja neprijetne emocije, kot sta žalost in jeza. Nizko subjektivno blagostanje se zrcali skozi nezadovoljstvo z življenjem, redko doživljanje dobre volje in naklonjenosti ter pogosto doživljanje negativnih emocij, kot sta jeza in tesnoba. Namen magistrskega dela je preveriti povezanost med komponentami narcisizma kot osebnostne poteze in subjektivnim blagostanjem. V raziskavi je sodelovalo 307 odraslih udeležencev, različnih starostnih skupin in zaposlitvenih statusov. Uporabili smo vprašalnik narcisizma (NPI-40), lestvico hipersenzitivnega narcisizma (HSNS), lestvico zadovoljstva z življenjem (SWLS) in lestvico pozitivnega in negativnega afekta (PANAS). Hipoteze smo zastavili na podlagi prebrane literature, podatke pa smo obdelali s programom IBM SPSS Statistics 22, s pomočjo katerega smo izvedli statistične analize. Rezultati so pokazali, da so posamezne dimenzije odkritega in prikritega narcisizma napovedniki zadovoljstva z življenjem, pozitivne in negativne emocionalnosti. Prilagojene dimenzije odkritega narcisizma pozitivno napovedujejo zadovoljstvo z življenjem in pozitivni afekt ter negativno napovedujejo negativni afekt. Neprilagojene dimenzije odkritega in prikritega narcisizma negativno napovedujejo zadovoljstvo z življenjem in pozitivni afekt ter pozitivno napovedujejo negativni afekt. Statistično pomembna negativna korelacija se je pokazala tudi med starostjo in odkritim narcisizmom, prikritim narcisizmom ter negativnim afektom. Prav tako so se razlike pokazale tudi v izraženosti negativnega afekta med redno zaposlenimi in nezaposlenimi udeleženci.Modern society faces the rise of narcissism as the primary mode of operation, which is characterized by sense of grandiose self-importance, conviction of one\u27s extraordinariness, fantasizing about power, success, beauty and uniqueness. Main personality traits of narcissistic individuals are excessive self-admiration, feelings of superiority and exploiting of others. Typical for them is also a heavily inflated and positive, but unrealistic self-concept as well as lack of interest to create intimate relationships. Within the concept of narcissism, we distinguish overt and covert narcissism, which fundamentally differ from one another regarding their correlations with different psychological concepts. We tend to perceive the overt narcissism as adaptive and covert narcissism as maladaptive component of narcissism. The concept of subjective well-being refers to the person’s subjective evaluations of his or her own well-being and includes life satisfaction, positive and negative affect. Someone who is very satisfied with his life, who is often in a good mood and hardly ever experiences uncomfortable emotions, such as sadness and anger, can be deemed to have a high level of subjective well-being. Low level of subjective well-being on the other hand is reflected by dissatisfaction with one’s life, rare good mood episodes, affection deprivation as well as often experiencing negative emotions, like anger and anxiety. The purpose of this master\u27s thesis was to examine the connection between components of narcissism as personality traits and subjective well-being. 307 adult participants of all ages, regardless of the occupational status, participated in the study. We used the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI-40), the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale (HSNS), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). We set the hypotheses based on the literature we read and processed the data with the statistics program IBM SPSS Statistics 22, which enabled us to perform statistical analyses. The results of the study show that some dimensions of overt and covert narcissism indicate life satisfaction, positive and negative emotionality. Adaptive dimensions of overt narcissism positively predict life satisfaction as well as positive affect and negatively predict the negative affect. Maladaptive dimensions of overt narcissism and covert narcissism negatively predict life satisfaction and positive affect and positively predict the negative affect. The study also indicates statistically significant negative correlation between age and overt narcissism, covert narcissism and negative affect. Differences are also evident in expression of negative affect in employed and unemployed participants of the study