{"id":9391,"date":"2024-07-11T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9391"},"modified":"2024-07-11T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:27:11","slug":"can-narcissism-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9391","title":{"rendered":"Can Narcissism Go Away?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here\u2019s how to recognize it and cope with the narcissist in your life.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re hoping that the narcissist in your life will change, a new study<\/a> suggests that you may have to wait a very long time. And even then, you might see only a small difference.<\/p>\n

The research, which was published in the journal Psychological Bulletin on Thursday, analyzed 51 studies with more than 37,000 participants \u2014 mostly from North America, Europe and New Zealand \u2014 to explore how narcissism changes over a person\u2019s life span.<\/p>\n

Although the researchers found that, on average, narcissism gradually declined as people aged, \u201cthe results show that this decline is not as large as one might hope,\u201d said Ulrich Orth, the lead author of the paper and a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Bern in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The declines in narcissism took place over the span of decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look back at how a close friend behaved 20 or 30 years earlier, you might notice the change,\u201d Dr. Orth said. \u201cStill, the average decline was at most of moderate size, so you wouldn\u2019t expect that people\u2019s level of narcissism changes fundamentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The study also found that if people had higher levels of narcissism than others when they were children, then this was also usually true when they reached adulthood.<\/p>\n

The research featured subjects who were mostly white and lived in Western cultures, and a number of the studies included in the analysis had low numbers of adults who were 65 or older, all of which makes it difficult to generalize the results.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how to recognize it and cope with the narcissist in your life.If you\u2019re hoping that the narcissist in your life will change, a new study suggests that you may have to wait a very long time. And even then, you might see only a small difference.The research, which was published in the journal Psychological Bulletin on Thursday, analyzed 51 studies with more than 37,000 participants \u2014 mostly from North America, Europe and New Zealand \u2014 to explore how narcissism changes over a person\u2019s life span.Although the researchers found that, on average, narcissism gradually declined as people aged, \u201cthe results show that this decline is not as large as one might hope,\u201d said Ulrich Orth, the lead author of the paper and a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Bern in Switzerland.The declines in narcissism took place over the span of decades.\u201cWhen you look back at how a close friend behaved 20 or 30 years earlier, you might notice the change,\u201d Dr. Orth said. \u201cStill, the average decline was at most of moderate size, so you wouldn\u2019t expect that people\u2019s level of narcissism changes fundamentally.\u201dThe study also found that if people had higher levels of narcissism than others when they were children, then this was also usually true when they reached adulthood.The research featured subjects who were mostly white and lived in Western cultures, and a number of the studies included in the analysis had low numbers of adults who were 65 or older, all of which makes it difficult to generalize the results.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9393,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9394,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions\/9394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}