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Narcissism and leadership : what we can learn from a case-study of Silvio Berlusconi
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Author
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Abstract
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| There has been a sustained interest in personality of politicians. In particular aversive personality traits such as psychopathy, narcissism and machiavellianism. To overcome the hurdle of limited acces when studying political leaders it is argued that psychodiagnostic meta-analysis methodologies can be applied in combina-tion with validated psychological instruments. In this study the focus will be on a hypothesised narcissistic leader: Italy’s ex prime-minister Silvio Berlusconi. Using the Million Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC) as the at-a-distance psychodiagnostic meta-analysis tool to assess the overall personality, scales associated with narcissism will be compared to results on the well established Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) to test the usability and relevance of an extended psychodiagnostic meta-analysis scale to specifically assess narcissism in political leaders. Results of the study verify that the ambitious scale of the MIDC, which is de-fined as the correlate with narcissism, is not sufficient to verify the presence of narcissistic traits, as hy-pothesised by expert-opinions. Implication of these findings are further discussed. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Politics, culture & socialization. - Leverkusen, 2010, currens
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Publication
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Leverkusen
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Barbara Budrich Publishers
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2017
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ISSN
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1866-3427
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2196-1417
[online]
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Volume/pages
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8
:1/2
(2017)
, p. 134-151
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