The Rise Of Narcissism

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The Rise of Narcissism

Narcissistic personality disorder (NDP) exhibits the abnormal behavior that is an exaggeration of feelings that support self-importance and demand for admiration. At the same time, an individual with this disorder also lacks empathy. According to research reports, scientists claim that narcissism has become a common disorder in the modern world. Narcissism lies between healthy to severity. It becomes severe when an individual becomes engrossed with self and seeks approval from others while do not care about others' feelings. In case, they do not receive the attention, they get into depression and other mental disorders.

Although Social media is very popular among the people, the young people are more into this practice in their elder counterparts are. Likewise, narcissism is a common factor that fascinates these young users. The researchers have found a positive relationship between narcissism and social interaction (Hussain, Griffiths, and Sheffield, pp. 378-386). The researches further tell that young generation with low-self-esteem on facebook gets more social ties in comparison to their real life. The signs of depressive symptoms increase with the use of Facebook (Carpenter, pp. 482-486).

According to research, 98% of the participants were using Facebook and 2% of them were using Twitter (Panek, Nardis and Konrath, pp. 5). After the data is analyzed, it is found that narcissism is positively related to the use of social media (Panek, Nardis and Konrath, pp. 5). It shows that the intensity of using social sites is related to narcissistic tendencies. Another research presents that individuals use social networks to present themselves and to get admiration from their social network friends (Timo and Appel, pp. 200-212). People on facebook are unable to identify their flaws. They feel secure on social sites like facebook because here they discuss themselves with people regardless of their daily lives.

Works Cited

Carpenter, Christopher J. "Narcissism on Facebook: Self-promotional and anti-social behavior." Personality and individual differences 52.4 (2012): 482-486.

Gnambs, Timo, and Markus Appel. "Narcissism and social networking behavior: A meta‐analysis." Journal of personality86.2 (2018): 200-212.

Hussain, Zaheer, Mark D. Griffiths, and David Sheffield. "An investigation into problematic smartphone use: The role of narcissism, anxiety, and personality factors." Journal of behavioral addictions 6.3 (2017): 378-386.

Panek, Elliot T., Yioryos Nardis, and Sara Konrath. "Mirror or Megaphone?: How relationships between narcissism and social networking site use differ on Facebook and Twitter." Computers in Human Behavior 29.5 (2013): 2004-2012.