IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/dba/pappsa/v1y2025ip31-36.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Positive and Negative Pairings: A Soft Intervention Focused on Reducing Aggression in Narcissistic Personality Adolescents to Reduce Bullying in Schools

Author

Listed:
  • Zhou, Jiayi

Abstract

School bullying has increasingly become a significant factor affecting the mental health and academic life of adolescents in mainland China and globally, with many victims suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), insomnia, anxiety, and mood disorders. While much research in mainland China focuses on psychological treatment and protective measures for victims, there is a scarcity of behavioral analyses and intervention programs targeting aggressors, especially adolescents with narcissistic personalities, a high-risk group. Narcissistic adolescents typically exhibit traits such as arrogance, intense emotional expressiveness, a craving for admiration and control, a strong desire for attention, and a lack of empathy, making them more prone to proactive aggression and bullying behaviors. This paper presents a typical case of school bullying involving a narcissistic individual, analyzes the common behaviors and psychology of narcissistic bullies based on the underlying logic and causes of their thinking, and integrates aggression-related theories to propose a "Positive-Negative Pairing" psychological intervention method based on student group participation. The intervention aims to gently modify self-perceptions and enhance empathy within the school environment, thereby reducing the aggression of narcissistic adolescents and consequently decreasing instances of bullying. The study indicates that this intervention method is highly targeted and sustainable, but also acknowledges limitations such as potential test manipulation by narcissistic individuals and low willingness to cooperate, suggesting the need for further optimization.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:dba:pappsa:v:1:y:2025:i::p:31-36
as

Download full text from publisher

File URL: https://pinnaclepubs.com/index.php/PAPPS/article/view/24/27
Download Restriction: no
---><---

More about this item

Keywords

;
;
;
;
;

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:dba:pappsa:v:1:y:2025:i::p:31-36. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Joseph Clark (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://pinnaclepubs.com/index.php/PAPPS .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.