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23 signs you’re a secret narcissist

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/27/stop_telling_me_youre_a_sensitive_introvert_partner/

Research suggests there are two faces of narcissism, overt and covert, related to different personality profiles

“Maladaptive Covert Narcissism Scale (MCNS)*

Please answer the following questions by deciding to what extent each item is characteristic of your feelings and behavior. Fill in the blank next to each item by choosing a number from this scale:

1 = very uncharacteristic or untrue, strongly disagree

2 = uncharacteristic

3 = neutral

4 = characteristic

5 = very characteristic or true, strongly agree

1. ___ I can become entirely absorbed in thinking about my personal affairs, my health, my cares or my relations to others.
2. ___ My feelings are easily hurt by ridicule or the slighting remarks of others.
3. ___ When I enter a room I often become self-conscious and feel that the eyes of others are upon me.
4. ___ I dislike sharing the credit of an achievement with others.
5. ___ I feel that I have enough on my hand without worrying about other people’s troubles.
6. ___ I feel that I am temperamentally different from most people.
7. ___ I often interpret the remarks of others in a personal way.
8. ___ I easily become wrapped up in my own interests and forget the existence of others.
9. ___ I dislike being with a group unless I know that I am appreciated by at least one of those present.
10. ___ I am secretly “put out” or annoyed when other people come to me with their troubles, asking me for their time and sympathy.
11. ___ I am jealous of good-looking people.
12. ___ I tend to feel humiliated when criticized.
13. ___ I wonder why other people aren’t more appreciative of my good qualities.
14. ___ I tend to see other people as being either great or terrible.
15. ___ I sometimes have fantasies about being violent without knowing why.
16. ___ I am especially sensitive to success and failure.
17. ___ I have problems that nobody else seems to understand.
18. ___ I try to avoid rejection at all costs.
19. ___ My secret thoughts, feelings, and actions would horrify some of my friends.
20. ___ I tend to become involved in relationships in which I alternately adore and despise the other person.
21. ___ Even when I am in a group of friends, I often feel very alone and uneasy.
22. ___ I resent others who have what I lack.
23. ___ Defeat or disappointment usually shame or anger me, but I try not to show it.

Done? Now add together all the numbers to come up with a total score.

How’d you do?”

Follow the link for scoring…

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/27/stop_telling_me_youre_a_sensitive_introvert_partner/

Stephen