User:Ewb432/Narcissism

General grammar and typo list:

- "excessive pre-occupation with one's own needs" should be "excessive preoccupation with one's own needs"

- "narcissism exists on spectrum that ranges from normal to abnormal personality expression." should be "narcissism exists on a spectrum that ranges from normal to abnormal personality expression."

- "comes from a first century book" should be "comes from a first-century book"

- "independent of one-another, to use the term" should be "independent of one another, to use the term"

- "that consumed a persons entire sexual life" should be changed to "that consumed a person's entire sexual life"

- "He described individuals who are condescending, feel superior to others, are preoccupied with admiration, and exhibit a lack of empathy." should be changed to "His definition described individuals who are condescending, feel superior to others, are preoccupied with admiration, and exhibit a lack of empathy."

- "Freud's idea of narcissism described a pathology which manifests itself " should be changed to "Freud's idea of narcissism described a pathology that manifests itself"

- In Workforce Narcissism, some formatting. Removed the periods after each header and fixed the smaller bullet points that used to look like *

- Added link to Narcissism in the workplace in Workforce Narcissism

I believe that the heritability section is significantly underdeveloped. My changes are as follows

Heritability
Heritability studies using twins have shown that, as measured by standardized tests, narcissistic traits are often inherited. Narcissism was found to have a high heritability score (0.64) indicating that the concordance of this trait in the identical twins was significantly influenced by genetics as compared to environmental causation. It has also been shown that there is a continuum or spectrum of narcissistic traits ranging from normal and a pathological personality. Furthermore, evidence suggests that individual elements of narcissism have their own heritability score. For example, intrapersonal grandiosity has a score of 0.23, and interpersonal entitlement has a score of 0.35. While the genetic impact on narcissism levels is significant, it isn't the only factor at play. I propose to add a new section underneath the Heritability section titled Impacts from Environment. It will explain that research suggests that a person's environment can have a significant impact on their level of Narcissism. This section will overlap with the section titled Normalization of narcissistic behaviors.

Impacts from Environment
Alongside genetics, their environment has a significant, though notably lower, impact on a person's level of narcissism. People in more individualistic societies tend to have higher levels of narcissism when compared to collectivist societies. Furthermore, the differences between collectivism and individualistic societies, while relatively insignificant, are measurable and therefore worth noting. One study looked at differences in advertising products between an individualistic culture, America, and a collectivist one, South Korea. In American magazine advertisements, it found, that there was a greater tendency to stress the distinctiveness and uniqueness of the person; conversely, the South Korean ones stressed the importance of social conformity and harmony. This observation holds true for a cross-cultural analysis across a wide range of cultural outputs where individualistic national cultures produce more individualistic cultural products and collectivist national cultures produce more collectivist national products; these cultural effects were greater than the effects of individual differences within national cultures. Unfortunately, because, scientific interest in this specific area is low and research into this topic is rare, no specific relationships have been discovered.

From 4th sentence on is copied from another section of the article, I think it's a good idea to move it here so that there is one single spot where scientific analysis of environmental impacts on narcissism can be organized.

I also think that the section that discusses the misappropriation of the term is significantly underdeveloped. There are already a lot of citations, but I think that the article itself needs expansion. I will likely use the same citations. Here are the changes I plan to make

Misappropriation of the term
Increasingly over the last three decades, social media, bloggers, and self-help authors have indiscriminately applied "narcissism"  as a label for self-serving people and all domestic abusers. This misappropriation of the term is both damaging to those who deal with extreme narcissists in their own lives, as well as the public view of people with narcissistic personality disorder. It's important that we as a society move away from the glorification of narcissism and exaggerating its prevalence as well as minimizing the damage that it can do.

Elizabeth L. Kacel, Nicole Ennis, and Deidre B. Pereira. Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Clinical Health Psychology Practice: Case Studies of Comorbid Psychological Distress and Life Limiting Illness. Behavioral Medicine Vol. 23, 2017. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08964289.2017.1301875

Paroma Metra and Dimy Fluyau. Narcissistic Personality Disorder. May 18, 2021. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556001/.Knowledge297 (talk) 05:36, 7 March 2022 (UTC)