Effects of narcissistic personality traits and interpersonal relationship tendencies of art therapists on their countertransference management ability

Lee, Ji-Young; Kim, Gab-Sook

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2013.05.008

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“…In addition, the findings revealed that therapists’ need for mirroring, but not their need for twinship or idealization, were associated with their perceived therapeutic alliance and presence. These findings are consistent with studies that have reported direct associations between art therapists’ level of entitlement and their countertransference management ability, as well as between art therapists’ dominant-superior and competitive-aggressive relational tendencies and their ability to manage their countertransference responses (Jiyoung & Gabsook, 2013). Hence, therapists’ longing for approval and validation may hamper their performance within therapeutic sessions/encounters as well as their ability to foster a strong alliance.…”

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confidence: 91%

Therapists’ self-perception, attachment, and relationship: The role of selfobject needs.

Goldner

2016

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The associations between therapists' narcissistic vulnerability as manifested in their hunger for selfobject needs, attachment orientation, self-esteem, and authenticity, along with the quality of the therapeutic relationship with their clients were explored in a sample of 200 Israeli therapists. In addition, a regression model was tested in which therapists' hunger for selfobject needs were posited to mediate the association between therapists' attachment orientation and selfperception, which in turn was expected to mediate the association between therapists' hunger for selfobject needs and the therapist-client bond. Hunger for selfobject needs was associated with anxious attachment orientation. Hunger for the selfobject need for mirroring was associated with low levels of self-esteem, authenticity, and the quality of the therapeutic bond. The therapists' needs for mirroring mediated the association between therapists' anxious attachment orientation and their self-perception, which in turn mediated the relationship between therapists' hunger for selfobject needs and the quality of the relationship. The theoretical and clinical implications for therapy are discussed.

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confidence: 91%

Therapists’ self-perception, attachment, and relationship: The role of selfobject needs.

Goldner

2016

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…Scores on the exploitativeness sub-scale showed unweighted alpha reliability indices that ranged from .30 [60] to .86 [61] in 52 independent samples. For the 31 samples providing the necessary information, the expected population reliability coefficient was with lower and upper 95% confidence intervals, respectively, of .66 and .68.…”

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Meta-analysis of coefficient alpha for scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory

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The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) has greatly facilitated the scientific study of trait narcissism. However, there is great variability in the reported reliability of scores on the NPI. This study meta-analyzes coefficient alpha for scores on the NPI and its sub-scales (e.g. entitlement) with transformed alphas weighted by the inverse of the variance of alpha. Three coders evaluated 1213 individual studies for possible inclusion and determined that 1122 independent samples were suitable for coding on 12 different characteristics of the sample, scale, and study. A fourth author cross-coded 15 percent of these samples resulting in 85 percent overall agreement. In the independent samples, comprised of 195,038 self-reports, the expected population coefficient alpha for the NPI was .82. The population value for alpha on the various sub-scales ranged from .48 for narcissistic self-sufficiency to .76 for narcissistic leadership/authority. Because significant heterogeneity existed in coded study alphas for the overall NPI, moderator tests and an explanatory model were also conducted and reported. It was found that longer scales, the use of a Likert response scale as opposed to the original forced choice response format, higher mean scores and larger standard deviations on the scale, as well as the use of samples with a larger percentage of female respondents were all positively related to the expected population alpha for scores on the overall NPI. These results will likely aid researchers who are concerned with the reliability of scores on the NPI in their research on non-clinical subjects.

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“…Such people can easily separate their emotions and transfer their emotions into paintings to express their emotions because it was indirectly correlated with the "counter-transference" management ability through the independent trait of responsibility. For example, the self-sufficiency of art therapists can remain independent of responsibility, and such therapists would be capable of discriminating their desires from those of the clients in their therapy (Jiyoung & Gabsook, 2013) and capable of properly handling their counter transference feelings. Therefore, such narcissistic painters would automatically project their own senses of personal feelings into their drawing, which would naturally tend to resemble themselves.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Relationship between Sketch and Personality: The Narcissistic Personality Inventory Research

Wang¹

2015

ADR

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This study investigated 73 designed beginners who drew the Venus plaster and completed the 7dimensional Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) test. Next, 5-point scales were used to compare the degrees of the facial similarity between the paintings and photos of the beginners who created the paintings. The results indicated that over half of the paintings were similar to the photos of the painters, and the similarity was significantly correlated with narcissism. For example, the painters with self-sufficient personalities were more likely to exhibit assertiveness, independence, self-confidence, and need for achievement; thus, they were automatically drawn to their own sense of personal feelings as projected onto the drawings, which naturally tended to look like themselves. These results might help the educators in the design field identify the likely NPI-associated psychological and behavioral outcomes of design beginners by observing the contexts of their paintings.

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Effects of narcissistic personality traits and interpersonal relationship tendencies of art therapists on their countertransference management ability

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Therapists’ self-perception, attachment, and relationship: The role of selfobject needs.

Therapists’ self-perception, attachment, and relationship: The role of selfobject needs.

Meta-analysis of coefficient alpha for scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory

The Relationship between Sketch and Personality: The Narcissistic Personality Inventory Research

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