title: Hostility is related to narcissism controlling for social desirability: studies of college students and patients with myocardial infarction.
abstract: The authors examined the influence of narcissism and social desirability on hostility in two samples of 215 college students and 30 patients with myocardial infarction (MI). Results were as follows: (1) MI patients had stronger cynical hostility and lower social desirability than college students; (2) hostility was related to narcissism before and after controlling for social desirability in both MI patients and college students; and (3) these tendencies were stronger in MI patients than in college students, although there were no significant differences.
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Japan.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fukunishi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hattori
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000523:psychology*; D009289:Narcissism; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012803:Sick Role; D012928:Social Desirability