Victor A. Hurtado Torres

Coordinación de Acompañamiento y Gestión Estudiantil, Facultad de Psicología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 3 oriente 1413, Puebla, México, 72500

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i5-28

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ABSTRACT

To the interior of narcissistic families, children are assigned roles to control them, according to the interests of the narcissist or narcissists subjects. In these cases, it is common for the children and spouse to suffer abuse and/or violence in some of its variants, within family interactions, both by the narcissist and by other members of the family, while other children are given preferential treatment. All this generates pathological conditions in which children grow and develop. This puts obstacles in the proper development of the children of such a family, it all accentuated in their life as a couple where it is very likely to repeat family patterns. In this work, subjects from three generational cohorts of a family are studied, where the initial couple, made up of two narcissistic subjects, is called Zero Couple. At the same time, the characteristics of the children of the Zero Couple are studied, to them we refer to as the Alpha generation, which in turn are the parents of what we will call the Beta generation.
From the analysis carried out, a high incidence of narcissistic characteristics is found in the Alpha subjects, due to the upbringing by the Zero couple; with variants in the personality characteristics between the cohorts. The relevance of the study lies in the impact of narcissistic subjects on the family relationships they generate and their influence on the environment. A situation that today has become a public mental health problem, which give rise to social scourges such as: the daily life of aggressive or violent relationships in the population, abuse as a cultural phenomenon and the normalization of narcissistic traits and behaviors of the narcissistic spectrum in daily life.

KEYWORDS:

Narcissism, Narcisists, Violence, Family interactions.

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