E-ISSN : 2733-4538
In this study, explicit and indirect attributional styles of overt and covert narcissists were investigated. The Narcissistic Personality Disorder Scale(NPDS) and the Covert Narcissism Scale(CNS) were administered to 278 college students. And then, twenty-eight overt narcissistic students, thirty-three covert narcissistic students, and thirty-two control group were selected by using the NPDS and CNS scores. Then, the Attributional Style Questionnaire(ASQ) and the Pragmatic Inference Task(PIT) were administered to these three groups. In the explicit attributions, the overt and covert narcissists made more internal attributions for positive events than for negative events. However, there were no group differences on the levels of self-enhancing bias. The covert narcissists showed defensive bias for negative events in ASQ. However, in indirect attributions, the defensive attributions of the covert narcissists were disappeared.