Narcissism and Aggression in Counselor Candidates: A Challenge for Counselor Education in Indonesia

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10.2991/icset-17.2017.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Aggression, Counselor, Education, and Narcissistic

Abstract

Counselor is one of the major components for successful learning in school, therefore it is important to avoid either narcissistic or aggression inside counselor personality. The purpose of this study is to explore the phenomena and to test the relations. The subjects were counselor candidate in university aged 20-22 years old (M = 20,73). The result shows that 43 of 169 prospective counselor in university executed narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), then it correlated with aggression (r = 0.673). Cognition factor is very influential in the development of NPD. This is a serious problem in counselor education's sphere, further research needs to prepare appropriate intervention for reducing either narcissistic or aggression in counselor education.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Budi Purwoko
AU  - Fifi Khoirul Fitriyah
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - Narcissism and Aggression in Counselor Candidates: A Challenge for Counselor Education in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Science Educators and Teachers (ICSET 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 226
EP  - 230
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icset-17.2017.38
ID  - Purwoko2017/09
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