Narcissism Of School Students In Relation To Their Self-Compassion And Social Loafing

The study was conducted to explore the relationship of narcissism with social loafing and self-compassion. The study was conducted on 200 government school students.The Narcissism scale was developed by the researchers, Social Loafing Scale (SLS) by Q.G. Alam and Ramji Srivastava (2008) and Self-compassion Scale (SCS) by Kristin Neff (2003) were used to collect the data. The results revealed a no significant gender differences in narcissism of school students. But there were significant locale wise differences in narcissism among school students. It was also found that there is a significant positive relationship of narcissism with both self-compassion and social loafing.