The Influence of Covert Narcissism on Employee’s Interpersonal Problems: The Mediating Effect of Self-esteem and Self-concept Clarity
AUTHOR : 조성이, 김태선
INFORMATION : page. 165~186 / 2021 Vol.28 No.2
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of covert narcissism on interpersonal problems and the sequential mediating effects of self-esteem and self-concept clarity. The participants were 300 adult workers consisting of 150 women and 150 men. They were asked about covert narcissism, interpersonal problems, self-esteem, and self-concept clarity via online. SPSS and PROCESS Macro were used to analyze data and correlation analysis, multiple regression, and indirect effects were conducted. The results are as follows. First, the correlations among all variables including covert narcissism, interpersonal problems, self-esteem, and self-concept clarity were significant. Covert Narcissism and self-concept clarity explained interpersonal problems whereas self-esteem failed to explain interpersonal problems. Second, self-concept clarity mediated the relationship between covert narcissism and interpersonal problems and the meditating role of self-esteem was not revealed. Third, the significant sequential mediating effect of self-esteem and self-concept clarity in the relationship between covert narcissism and interpersonal problems was revealed. These results would provide meaningful implications for intervening interpersonal problems for employees with a high level of covert narcissism. Based on the results of this study, further implications and limitations and suggestions for subsequent research were discussed.