Date: 02/01/2023 Shift: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Q. No: 116

P) The exact causes of narcissistic personality disorder among the young ones are unknown, but childhood abuse and neglect may be possible factors involved in its formation.
Q) People with narcissistic personality disorder show a grandiose sense of self-importance, are consumed by fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love, and are extremely sensitive to criticism, among other things.
R) Younger people and men seem to be most affected.
S) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders describes narcissistic personality disorder as ‘a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts’.