The Effect of Narcissism on Mental Wellbeing in Middle aged People

In today’s world of technology people are becoming more self- centered rather being others’ oriented, which leads to narcissism and consequently end up with broken relationships. Nowadays, this is a major problem in our society. The present study was designed to address the narcissism effect on mental well being. Sixty middle ages participants were administered Narcissistic Personality Inventory and mental well-being questionnaire along with a demographic information sheet. On the basis of narcissism inventory score, they were classified in two categories. Results revealeda significant effect of narcissism on mental well being. It is observed that high narcissistic people have high levels of mental well-being in comparison to low narcissistic people. It was also found that significant differences exist in narcissism score and its seven component namely authority, self-sufficiency, superiority, vanity, entitlement, exhibitionism and exploitations.