Leadership preferences, motivation to lead and narcissistic personality traits

AbstractThis paper examines the concept of death projected by 1 Kgs 17:17-24 and other accounts of miraculous resuscitation. Viewed as a medical case history, Elijah's reviving of the widow's son raises difficult questions. Was the boy really dead, "only mostly dead," or merely gravely ill? Scholars often answer such questions by claiming that ancient Israelites did not consider corpses "to be 'totally' dead for a couple of days," and regarded death as "an enfeebled form of life." This paper challenges these claims by comparing Elijah's actions to those of other biblical and ancient Greek healers, as well as to Mesopotamian and shamanic healing practices. Why do healers like Elijah end up getting into bed with their patients? Examples in modern stories by Flaubert and Kafka reveal the kinship between the healer and the scapegoat, and suggest that miraculous healers tend to display narcissistic personality traits. Analysis of Greek sources and the Mount Horeb episode (1 Kings 19) indicates that this may also be the case for ancient healers like Elijah, Empedocles, and Asclepius, and that narcissism is itself a defense against death.

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The relationship between leadership abilities and narcissistic personality traits

10.18411/lj-05-2021-305 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 73 (8) ◽

pp. 48-50

Author(s):

C. Gorobets ◽

J.A. Prokopenko

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Constant Attention ◽

Low Level ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

High Level ◽

The Relationship

In this article, the hypothesis of the existence of a connection between narcissistic personality traits and the level of leadership abilities was tested, namely: in subjects with a low level of expression of leadership abilities, such a trait of a narcissistic personality as "The need for constant attention and admiration" prevails, and at a high level of dominated by such indicator as "Exploitation in interpersonal relationships."

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Relationship Between Smoking, Narcissism, and Impulsiveness Among Young Women

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1108170/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Semion Kertzman ◽

Alex Kagan ◽

Michael Vainder ◽

Rina Lapidus ◽

Abraham Weizman

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Young Women ◽

Empirical Support ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Personality Characteristics ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽

The Relationship

Abstract Although the connection between smoking and individual differences has been recently recognized, the relationship between narcissistic personality traits and cigarette smoking has received less attention. The notion that personality traits can be associated with addictive behavior is influential in clinical practice. However, questions remain about specific interactions between smoking and personality characteristics that need empirical support to substantiate this hypothesis. This study thus identifies narcissistic and impulsive personality traits as precursors of smoking in a sample of tattooed individuals. In a cross-sectional study (N = 120), personality traits were assessed in young women (aged 18-35 years) using the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11). The current study, using the regression analysis, has clearly demonstrated that young women who smoke have different personality characteristics as compared with women who do not smoke.

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