Article ID: 27.3.4
Some theories state that there is a relation between narcissism, shame, and humiliation, but few studies have been conducted on this relation in Japan. In this study, 199 university students (both undergraduate and graduate) answered a questionnaire measuring pathological narcissism, shame, humiliation, and stress response. Using structural equation modeling, we examined the influence the two types of narcissistic tendency had on the participants’ response to stress and how shame and humiliation would mediate narcissism. The results showed that, in a private setting, a stress response was triggered to mediate shame and humiliation in the case of a tendency for vulnerable narcissism.