ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Personality and Social Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1629470
This article is part of the Research TopicThe Dark Tetrad of Personality - Psychopathy, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Sadism, and their Relationship with Psychopathological and Health-Promoting FactorsView all 5 articles
The Narcissistic Personalities of Mothers as Perceived by Their Daughters and Its Relationship to Emotional Balance Among Female Students at King Faisal University
Provisionally accepted
- King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
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This study aimed to assess the perception of female students at King Faisal University of their mothers' narcissistic personalities and its relationship with their emotional balance. The study included 416 female students aged between 18 and 24 years. Two scales were used: the narcissistic mother scale as perceived by her daughter and the emotional balance scale (developed by the researcher). The results showed that the students' perceptions of their mothers' narcissism were low, except for the "excitability" dimension of the scale, which showed a moderate score. The overall level of emotional balance was also moderate. The study revealed statistically significant negative correlations at the 0.05 level between the dimensions of the narcissistic mother scale and the emotional balance scale, which indicated that the students who perceived their mothers as having narcissistic personalities had lower emotional balance. The study also found that the "intolerance" dimension of the narcissistic mother scale was the most significant predictor of emotional balance, followed by the "exploitativeness" dimension.
Keywords: Personality, narcissism, Narcissistic mother, trait, Emotional balance
Received: 15 May 2025; Accepted: 27 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Entesar Alnashmi, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
HANEM Mostafa Alboray, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
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