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Grandiose narcissism, depression and suicide ideation in Chinese and German students
- Source :
- Current Psychology. 40:3922-3930
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- In Western cultural context, grandiose (overt) narcissism has been shown to be either unrelated or negatively related to negative mental health (depression, suicide ideation). Grandiose narcissism may be differently related to depression and suicide ideation variables in Eastern cultural contexts. The current study therefore aims to investigate associations between grandiose narcissism, depression, and suicide ideation in a sample of metropolitan Chinese students as well as in a sample of German students. A total of N = 935 Chinese students (73.3% female; Mage = 22.62, SDage = .89) and of N = 389 German students (75.6% female; Mage = 23.13, SDage = 2.94) completed paper-and-pencil and/or online measures of grandiose narcissism, depression, and suicide ideation. Grandiose narcissism was positively associated with depression and suicide ideation in Chinese students. Depression fully mediated the association between grandiose narcissism and suicide ideation – controlling for gender, age, and survey method. In contrast, in the German sample, no significant associations could be found. Grandiose narcissism obviously has different consequences in China than in Germany.
- Subjects :
- education
05 social sciences
Cultural context
050109 social psychology
Mental health
050105 experimental psychology
language.human_language
German
language
Suicide ideation
Narcissism
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
medicine.symptom
Psychology
General Psychology
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19364733 and 10461310
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........dd867f7d182fca34fb08bc78f0f08458