prevalence of adaptive narcissism and its demographic correlations among the interns of guilan university of medical sciences, medical faculty: a cross-sectional study

Background: adaptive narcissism is the presence of narcissistic personality traits in otherwise normal individuals. considering the potential effects of narcissism on the medical profession.objectives: the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of adaptive narcissism and its demographic correlations among a medical student population using self-assessment tools.methods: participants were selected through cluster sampling among students spending their internship in the medical school of guilan university of medical sciences in 2019 (n = 138). the 40-item narcissistic personality inventory (npi-40) was used to assess the prevalence of adaptive narcissism. next, the demographic correlations of narcissism were studied.results: the prevalence of adaptive narcissism was 18.1%, with the npi-40 mean score of 14.43. the self-sufficiency subscale of npi-40 was correlated with the male gender (p = 0.01).conclusions: among medical interns, the whole constructs of adaptive narcissism are as high as found in a normal population and are not correlated with demographic characteristics of the given sample. the self-sufficiency subscale is positively correlated with the male gender.