title: Different coping strategies amongst individuals with grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic traits.
abstract: This study explored the relationships between coping with stress responses and grandiose and vulnerable narcissist traits.
  
  
  
  A community sample of 170 adults (113 female) participated in this study. A cross-sectional design was employed that utilized self-report measures of trait anxiety, social desirability, coping with stress responses, and pathological narcissism.
  
  
  
  Regression models indicated that both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism traits are significantly associated with, in opposing directions, behavioural disengagement responses to stress when controlling for trait anxiety and social desirability. Vulnerable narcissism traits were significantly associated with the use of denial as coping with stress response when controlling for the same factors.
  
  
  
  These findings provide further evidence of the discriminant validity of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory and inform our understanding of the differences that grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic traits have on coping.
authors.affiliation: King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, London, UK; HIV Liaison Service, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: Bruce.Fernie@kcl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Bruce A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Fernie
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London, UK.
authors.forename: Agoston
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fung
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London, UK.
authors.forename: Ana V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Nikčević
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003702:Delusions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009289:Narcissism; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Coping with stress; Grandiose narcissism; Vulnerable narcissism