%0 Journal Article
%T Extremes of self-esteem and narcissism and the experience and expression of anger and aggression
%J Aggressive behavior
%D 1998
%A Papps, BP
%A O'Carroll, Ronan E.
%V 24
%N 6
%P 421-438
%X This study examined the level of self-esteem and narcissism as personality variables involved in the disposition to experience and express anger. Three hundred thirty-eight subjects were sampled across two higher education centres and one student teaching programme in the United Kingdom, It was reasoned that individuals with both high self-esteem and narcissism would report especially high tendencies to experience and express anger and aggression and that those with high self-esteem and low narcissism would report the lowest, These predictions were influenced by theories that emphasise the role of threats to high self-esteem in the production of aggression and violence. Results indicate that groups defined by their extreme scores on self-esteem and narcissism scales produced levels of anger expression in the predicted direction, The importance of considering extreme levels of self-esteem and narcissism (in conjunction with other factors) in an analysis of anger is discussed with reference to currently influential theories in the field. <p />
%G en
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 0096-140X
%U http://dx.doi.org/