Narcissistic Personality Type
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Self-Confident
Definition:
Synonyms:
Analogous:
Character Strengths and Virtues
- Self-regard, self-respect, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, self-belief.
- Self-love, self-esteem, dignity.
- Ambition, aspiration.
- Political prudence, artful management, sagacity, shrewdness, suavity, smoothness, urbanity, diplomacy.
- Competitiveness, stamina, resilience.
- Magnificence, high-mindedness, stature.
- Purposefulness, imagination.
- Self-awareness, truthfulness.
- Poise, self-possession, self-assurance, self-command, aplomb.
Traits or Behaviors
Likes
being admired, aggrandizement, being special, being unique, status, superior image, superiority, special favors, favorable treatment, prestige, dispensations, privileges, prerogatives, acknowledgment of superiority by others, being above the rules, glory, wealth, position, power, success, ambition, competitiveness,
Dislikes
being scorned, being criticized, being seen as common, being ordinary, being seen as inferior, failure, others not according them admiration and respect
Noteworthy Examples
Karl Abraham, Horatio Alger, Lou Andreas-Salome, Ted Bundy, Neal Cassady, Bill Clinton, Cindy Crawford, Leonardo DiCaprio, Benjamin Franklin, Clark Gable, Paul Gauguin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Joseph Heller, Robert Hogan, Whitney Houston, Tom Jones, Melanie Klein, Michael Landon, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Bruce Lee, General Douglas MacArthur, Thomas Mann, Jeffrey Masson, Paul McCartney, Henry Miller, Joe Montana, Elvis Presley, Christopher Reeve, Burt Reynolds, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cybill Shepherd, Brooke Shields, O. J. Simpson, Sitting Bull, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, Leo Tolstoy, Donald Trump, Richard Wagner, Denzel Washington, Oscar Wilde.
References
John M. Oldham and Lois B. Morris (1995). The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do. New York: Bantam.
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