The tendency to feel like a perpetual victim is strongly tied to vulnerable narcissism. Individuals who frequently perceive themselves as victims and signal this status to others often possess high levels of vulnerable narcissism and emotional instability.
The tendency to feel like a perpetual victim is strongly tied to vulnerable narcissism
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**The tendency to feel like a perpetual victim is strongly tied to vulnerable narcissism**
A new study published in Personality and Individual Differences has found that a persistent “victim mentality” is strongly linked to narcissistic personality traits. The findings suggest that individuals who frequently perceive themselves as victims and signal this status to others often possess high levels of vulnerable narcissism and emotional instability. This research indicates that for some people, **the tendency to see oneself as a victim is less about actual trauma and more about a specific personality structure that seeks recognition and validation.**
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886925005604
THe article has lots of caveats at the end of it, and concerns how it will be viewed.
Good luck with that is my first reaction, this will be misused.
Just a small but of nuance to add to this, this is NOT talking about people who feel like perpetual victims because they are perpetually being victimized through things like systemic abuse, ableism, racism, illness, etc.
One of the biggest differences between victims and victim mentality, is the use of something called DARVO.
D – Deny(,)
A – Attack(,)
R – Reverse
V – Victim (and)
O – Offender
Basically when someone insists they are the victim, even when they’re the offender.
Pleeeease don’t confuse it with being a victim. Victim mentality ≠ learned helplessness, those are different terms. And learned helplessness is tone deaf to say to people who are victims of systemic things and or in abusive situations
This is obvious… thanks, Captain.
Our culture virtue signals so strongly against racism and every other form of “ism” or social “phobia” that we have inadvertently ended up breeding an entire generation of vulnerable narcissists. By coddling members of “protected groups” and treating every trivial “microaggression” as a high crime, we have ended up with a victimhood culture of emotional fragility instead of a dignity culture of resilience.
In The Shame Theatre, you’re the star of the show.
I feel like this issue is difficult to talk about because it’s such a minefield of people who were genuine victims and were either accused of being abusers or accused of making it up.
Just like there are abusers who accuse victims of making it up, there are people, often abusers themselves that will lie about being victims. The problem with many of these allegations is they’re not provable in either direction making it impossible to tell the victim apart from the abuser.
“I also want to make it abundantly clear that to use our research against individuals that have experienced marginalization or victimization is irresponsible and wrong,” Bedard continued. “Our research is not indicating that people who have victimization histories are narcissistic. The Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood is a mindset that people have regardless of what their background may be, and this mindset is what is related to narcissistic tendencies.
To weaponize our research against individuals that have been victimized or experience oppression is inaccurate to what our research indicates – that the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood is a mindset anyone can have, and those with a victim mentality have narcissistic tendencies. If someone is weaponizing our research against a certain group, please be mindful that they are misrepresenting what our study really indicates.”
Cannot wait for all of that to be ignored by everyone with an agenda.
Hmmm sounds like a lot of people on reddit….weirddddd
This is a super interesting one.
These people (i am one) get labeled as victims, but if you actually understand the physiology – they really are.
The brain suffers incredible trauma, leaving one in depths of despair before a sense of self can even form, all the while the perpetually negative affect clouds the filter through one perceives the world.
And there is no cure.
I dont know a single condition that matches the depth of interpersonal agony that matches cluster b issues, other than autism.
Not surprising.There’s a whole generation of these types.
Just the title of the post seemed to answer, or at least point me in a sturdy direction towards the answer, of a major life mystery re my parent.
Still doesn’t answer, for me, whether they’re born or made or both, but I guess that’s the impossible question.