Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Auto-análise: Narcisismo encoberto ou sensibilidade e introversão?

  

O narcisismo clássico é difícil de encobrir, considerando as incontroláveis demonstrações de
extroversão, agressividade, autoconfiança, grandiosidade, vaidade e necessidade de ser admirado pelos outros. 

Contudo, há um outro tipo de narcisismo - caracterizado pela introversão, hipersensibilidade, defensividade, ansiedade e vulnerabilidade - e esse é bastante confundido com introversão e sensibilidade excessiva. 

Claro, introversão e sensibilidade são características reais e não necessariamente associadas ao narcisismo.

Os traços comuns a ambos os tipos de narcisismo são a arrogância e a tendência a ceder a suas próprias necessidades e ignorar os outros.

Sou de fato introvertido, mas não tímido, embora aja timidamente em algumas situações sociais, o que, segundo a minha genitora, é motivado pela arrogância e o consequente medo de rejeição.

Embora não tenha a tendência de ignorar os outros em benefício próprio, será que minha arrogância e timidez social são suficientes para caracterizar narcisismo encoberto, em níveis considerados patológicos?

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Maladaptive Covert Narcissism Scale (MCNS)*
Please answer the following questions by deciding to what extent each item is characteristic of your feelings and behavior. Fill in the blank next to each item by choosing a number from this scale:
1 = very uncharacteristic or untrue, strongly disagree
2 = uncharacteristic
3 = neutral
4 = characteristic
5 = very characteristic or true, strongly agree
  1. ___ I can become entirely absorbed in thinking about my personal affairs, my health, my cares or my relations to others.
  2. ___ My feelings are easily hurt by ridicule or the slighting remarks of others.
  3. ___ When I enter a room I often become self-conscious and feel that the eyes of others are upon me.
  4. ___ I dislike sharing the credit of an achievement with others.
  5. ___ I feel that I have enough on my hand without worrying about other people’s troubles.
  6. ___ I feel that I am temperamentally different from most people.
  7. ___ I often interpret the remarks of others in a personal way.
  8. ___ I easily become wrapped up in my own interests and forget the existence of others.
  9. ___ I dislike being with a group unless I know that I am appreciated by at least one of those present.
  10. ___ I am secretly “put out” or annoyed when other people come to me with their troubles, asking me for their time and sympathy.
  11. ___ I am jealous of good-looking people.
  12. ___ I tend to feel humiliated when criticized.
  13. ___ I wonder why other people aren’t more appreciative of my good qualities.
  14. ___ I tend to see other people as being either great or terrible.
  15. ___ I sometimes have fantasies about being violent without knowing why.
  16. ___ I am especially sensitive to success and failure.
  17. ___ I have problems that nobody else seems to understand.
  18. ___ I try to avoid rejection at all costs.
  19. ___ My secret thoughts, feelings, and actions would horrify some of my friends.
  20. ___ I tend to become involved in relationships in which I alternately adore and despise the other person.
  21. ___ Even when I am in a group of friends, I often feel very alone and uneasy.
  22. ___ I resent others who have what I lack.
  23. ___ Defeat or disappointment usually shame or anger me, but I try not to show it.

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