{"id":242218,"date":"2026-08-05T01:19:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/women-with-narcissistic-tendencies-may-struggle-with-forgiveness"},"modified":"2026-08-05T01:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:19:43","slug":"women-with-narcissistic-tendencies-may-struggle-with-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/women-with-narcissistic-tendencies-may-struggle-with-forgiveness","title":{"rendered":"Women with narcissistic tendencies may struggle with forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Narcissism is associated with selfishness and other negative traits like a grandiose sense of self-importance, a constant need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. So it may not be surprising that narcissists tend to have a hard time with behaviors associated with better mental health and healthy relationships, like forgiveness. But a new study, published<\/a> in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry<\/i>, explores how people with a particular type of narcissism automatically respond to interpersonal offenses by measuring their tendencies to seek revenge, avoid the person who offended them or act in a benevolent manner.<\/p>\n

Past findings on narcissism and forgiveness have been mixed, partly because they treated narcissism as a single trait. However, most researchers agree that narcissism is not a single trait. The authors of the new study say that it is commonly divided into two higher-order domains<\/a>: grandiose and vulnerable narcissism.<\/p>\n

These domains are further refined into antagonistic narcissism, defined by hostility and reactive self-defensiveness; agentic extraversion, defined by self-promoting and self-enhancement tendencies; and narcissistic neuroticism, defined by insecurity and social withdrawal. The new study focuses on antagonistic narcissism, which involves traits such as entitlement, hostility and exploiting others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Narcissism is associated with selfishness and other negative traits like a grandiose sense of self-importance, a constant need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. So it may not be surprising that narcissists tend to have a hard time with behaviors associated with better mental health and healthy relationships, like forgiveness. But a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}