Tamalika Das Gupta, Sarah Naib, Anushka Agarwal and Cherish Soi
Amity University Kolkata
This study investigates different psychological correlates of individuals high on narcissism
by assessing their various personality dimensions, subjective feeling of loneliness
and sense of self esteem. The study was conducted on 80 young adults (40 high on
narcissistic traits and 40 low on narcissistic traits) with age range 18 – 21 years. The
Narcissistic Personality Inventory, UCLA Loneliness Scale, Rosenberg Self Esteem
scale and Neo Five-Factor Inventory-3 were used in collecting data. Results showed
that feeling of loneliness is subjectively more among individuals high on narcissistic
traits which is sharing a significant relationship with high explicit self esteem along with
personality dimensions of high extraversion and low agreeableness and neuroticism