The relationship narcissism, resilience, and youth activity competence in adolescents Yun Soonyoung, Min Shinhong* Baekseok University, Nursing department, 76, Munam-ro, ASI|KR|KS002|CHEONAN, Korea *Corresponding Author: Shinhong Min Professor, Division of Nursing, Baekseok University, Korea Email: shmin@bu.ac.kr
Online published on 16 October, 2018. Abstract Background/Objectives This study aimed to investigate the relationship between resilience and narcissism to understand the impact of the development of activity competence in adolescents.. Method/Statistical Analysis The survey was conducted from September 4 to November 3, 2017 in the subjects of the students who were informed of the study goals and contents, and agreed. First for the sociodemographic characteristics, they were set including sex, grade, religion, study level perceived by him or her, family economic status, and education level of the parents. And we surveyed the data of narcissism, resilience and activity competence.. Findings Upon the study results among 195 middle school students, they showed mean values of narcissism, resilience and activity competence with 22.76 points, 19.45 points and 23.70 points, respectively. Among 165 high school students, they showed mean values of narcissism, resilience and activity competence with 24.97 points, 18.95 points and 24.00 points, respectively, demonstrating negative correlations between narcissism and resilience, and between narcissism and activity competence, while positive correlations between resilience and activity competence in both middle school and high school students.. Improvements/Applications Therefore, it is necessary to develop the interventions to lower narcissism that affects activity competence negatively and to enhance resilience that affects it positively. Top Keywords Adolescents, Competence, Narcissism, Resilience, Youth activity. Top |