Abstract

The present study investigated the relationship between narcissistic personality and self complexity. Specifically, I was interested in how narcissistic person represents one's own numerous self aspects and discriminate them. The basic hypothesis of this research is that the more narcissistic the man is, the more self complexity he has. For this research, 228 students were participated and, I used two survey methods to validify the hypotheses : one was Narcissistic Personality Inventory(NPI) for narcissism, the other Trait Sort Technique for self complexity. The result showed that the correlation between narcissism and self complexity was meaningful and positive (r=.34, p<.001), and the hypothesis was validified. That is to say, the man who is more narcissistic would have more self aspects in roles, traits, physical features, behaviors, relationships, and each aspect is more discriminated. On the basis of this result, I think the researches on validity of the two survey methods are not only needed, but, in relation to narcissism and self complexity, the consideration to the affect-extemity, self concepts, and artist's personality should be given.