In “Separating Narcissism From Self-Esteem” Eddie Brummelman, Sander Thomaes and Constantine Sedikides compare and contrast narcissism with self-esteem, challenge the belief of high self-esteem being a key benefactor to narcissism and argue how they are both developed in different ways, especially when it comes to socializing experiences. In the event of researching their data they used past studies in which mostly were done cross sectional (observational study that collects data from a whole population). Not only did they provide sufficient evidence, but they also propose good arguments with their concepts of narcissism and self-esteem.
According to past greek myths there had been a man named Narcissus, he was a man who had fallen in love with himself from his own reflections. He is characterized as an egocentric man, with that being said physcologists began to use the term narcissistic for people who have similar personalities to the ones that narcissus had. Personally, what I find interesting is how the media plays a role in this article, since the media is well known to be reported with high amounts of biased information. In this case, the media portraits narcissists as…show more content… For example, they make it really clear throughout the article how narcissists are those people who feel superior from everybody else, want respect and admiration from others, while self-esteemers are happy with there one self and do not feel the urge to feel better than others or to rise above anybody. One thing that people don’t notice is that people that are more in the area of being narcissists, tend to want to be better than everyone else, but in reality they're not even happy with themselves. In other words, narcissists have low self-esteem, which is why they do what they do and don’t desire for deep bonds like high self-esteemers
