RESEARCH ARTICLE
Interpersonal and Individual Factors in the Grandiose Fantasies and Threats to Self-esteem of A Non-clinical Sample
Guido Veronese1, *, Giovanni Maria Ruggiero2, Sandra Sassaroli3, Marco Castiglioni1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2011Volume: 4
First Page: 1
Last Page: 5
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-4-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101104010001
Article History:
Received Date: 18/10/2010Revision Received Date: 20/12/2010
Acceptance Date: 21/12/2010
Electronic publication date: 23/2/2011
Collection year: 2011
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Abstract
This study aimed to investigate whether interpersonal factors play a prominent role in the construction of narcissistic fantasies, by comparing memories of threat to self-esteem, grandiose fantasies and imaginary relaxing scenes.
A non-clinical group of university students produced written descriptions of each of these three types of scene. The qualitative features of the texts were analyzed and the contents were classified along three different dimensions: biological, psychological and interpersonal.
Memories of threat to self-esteem and grandiose fantasies were found to be mainly interpersonal in content, while the relaxing scenarios were characterized by both relational and biological elements.