The relation between narcissism and self-handicapping in students (boys and girls)

International Conference on Sports Medicine and Fitness

March 23-25, 2015 Chicago, USA

Ali Hojati1, Hamideh Abrisham Kar2 and Fatemeh Irannezhad2

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Sports Med Doping Stud

Abstract :

Narcissism is one type of personality; sometimes this character creates the extreme case and isolation of individual. As regards, narcissism have a positive roles on the self-esteem, confidence, good performance so the purpose of this study was to determine the relation between narcissism and self-handicapping in boys and girls students in the high school Physical Education classes in Tehran. This study was performed to descriptive/correlational survey way. 187 student (boys=86 and girl=101) completed Self-Handicapping Scale and Narcissistic Personality Inventoryâ??40. Results revealed that there were a positive significant relation between narcissism and self-handicapping of student (r=0/54, sig=0/001), and a significant difference between boys and girls studentâ??s self-handicapping (t=3/11, sig=0/01). Also, there were a significant difference between boys and girls studentâ??s narcissism (t=2/52, sig=0/01). These results suggest that people with higher narcissism exhibited more total self-handicapping in Physical Education classes. Also, girls mostly had claimed self-handicapping and boys mostly had behavioral self-handicapping. According to this result it can be said one of the major reason for self handicapping behavior in physical education classes is narcissism character, one way to avoid these behaviors is consideration of teachers to the personality character especially to narcissism.