Explaining the Model of Narcissism Personality Based on early life traumas, Family Functioning, and Mother's Conceptual Mentality Perceived Parenting Styles with The Mediating Role of Perfectionism and Emotion Regulation Difficulties

This study aimed to develop a model of narcissism personality based on the early life traumas, family functioning, and perceived parenting style of the mother, considering the mediating role of perfectionism and emotion regulation difficulty. The method of the present study is descriptive correlation based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the present study was people aged 20 to 45 in Tehran in 2020-21 who had been referred to psychological clinics for counseling services, of which 350 people were selected by purposeful sampling. Clinical interview, Ames narcissism personality (Ames, et. al., 2006), child abuse self-report scale (Noorbakhsh, 1391), family functioning (Epstein, et. al., 2007), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (Gratz & Roemer, 2004), Perception of Parents Scale (Grolnick, Deci, & Ryan, 1997) and perfectionism (Flett & Hewitt, 1991) scale were used to collect data. Then, using SPSS v.23 and Amos v.23 software, the data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model. The results show that early life traumas, family function, perfectionism, and emotion regulation difficulties directly lead to an increased tendency towards narcissism characteristic. Early life traumas, the mother’s perceived parenting styles, and family functioning indirectly and significantly affect the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties on narcissism. This research confirmed the mediation role of perfectionism and emotion regulation difficulty, based on the early life traumas, family functioning, and perceived parenting style of the mother