AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them. People with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others.

Detailed explanation-2: -Narcissistic personality disorder-one of several types of personality disorders-is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others.

Detailed explanation-3: -Clinicians describe narcissists as individuals having an inflated but extremely fragile sense of self (Caligor, 2013; Ronningstam, 2009).

Detailed explanation-4: -Inflated sense of self is defined as trying to influence others excessively, an insatiable need for approval and a desire to be in the center of others’ attention (17).

Detailed explanation-5: -The term “grandiosity” refers to an unrealistic sense of superiority in which someone believes themself to be unique and better than others.