The effect of frustration on emotion regulation on people with higher narcissistic personality traits

This thesis focuses on the effect of frustration on emotion regulation difficulties, the moderation effect of narcissism for this relationship and the differences among two narcissistic personality tendencies: grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism. Narcissism theories, pathological narcissism, grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, emotion regulation difficulties, cognitive emotion regulation mechanisms and frustration were described. Differences between two subtypes of narcissism was assessed through a quasi-experimental design. In this study, Narcissistic Personality Inventory for the assessment of grandiose narcissism, Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale for assessing vulnerable narcissism, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, for defining difficulties in emotion regulation and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Scale, for evaluating each cognitive mechanism, were utilized. This paper provides and outcome for the Turkish population. Findings displayed that grandiose narcissism has a significant impact on the relationship between frustration levels and emotion regulation. Vulnerable narcissism displayed no influence on the effect of frustration and emotion regulation. In addition, each narcissism subtype differentiated in terms of selected cognitive emotion regulation mechanisms.