INDIVIDUAL-TYPICAL VARIATIONS OF NARCISSISM

In the period of global and large-scale socio-cultural changes, the desire for “free individualism”, for undesirable social manifestations referring to the extreme (subclinical) variants of the “norm”, to the growth of narcissistic tendencies increases. The urgency of the study is determined by the need to develop a theoretical and methodological substantiation of the issue of narcissism, its conceptualization as a psychological phenomenon, the need to study individualtypical variations of its features (components) and the features of their manifestations. The paper aims to present the results of investigating individual psychological features of non-clinical narcissism in persons who differ in emotionality. For the study of narcissism, “Test of Narcissism Assessment” was used. Emotionality was measured by “Psychodiagnostic Four-Modality Emotionality Questionnaire”. The presence of negative significant correlations between the emotional modality of Joy and the majority of indicators of narcissism was found, while the modalities “Anger”, “Fear”, “Sadness” correlate with the parameters of narcissism mostly positively. The individual peculiarity of the narcissistic traits within the limits of the mental norm, the variability of their individual combinations (qualitative and quantitative combination of indicators, characteristics of narcissism) are determined by the degree of dominance of one or another emotional modality.