THE RELATION BETWEEN CHILD NARCICSM AND CHILDHOOD TERM HAPPINESS AND SERENITY
ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN ÇOCUK NARSİSİZMİ İLE ÇOCUKLUK DÖNEMİ MUTLULUK VE HUZUR ANILARI ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ

Author : Miray ÖZÖZEN DANACI
Number of pages : 13-25

Abstract

Narkhissosun, who first saw the reflection of the sea in Greek mythology for the first time, introduced the concept of narcissism, inspired by the mythology of falling in love with himself, and explained that narcissistic personality disorders are the result of megalomania by considering normal and pathological dimensions. It is aimed to investigate the relationship between child narcissism and childhood happiness/ peacefulness in working with the assumption that personality disorders and bases of narcissistic behaviors in this context can withstand childhood. The research group of the study sample consisted of 265 university students, 125 of them female and 140 male which training at faculty of education and faculty of healthy. In the research conducted as a relational screening model, the data were collected by using the Personal Information Form created by the researcher and Thomaes et al. (2008) developed the 'Childhood Narcissism Scale' developed by Akın, Uysal, Citemel (2013) using validity reliability and Turkish adaptation study and 'Childhood Happiness / Peace Memories Scale' developed by Richter, Gilbert and McEwan. As a result of the research, it was found that there was a meaningful relationship between the childhood narcissism and the childhood happiness / peacefulness of the students and a number of suggestions were made about the importance of ensuring the happiness and peaceful environments of the children in controlling childhood narcissism.

Keywords

Child, happiness, serenity, narcicism memory

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