Narcissism definition:
"selfishness, involving a sense of entitlement, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration, as characterizing a personality type"
Many science studies say that parents can alter their child's mind, even create partial copies of themselves.
Kinda like parents who lie a lot are more likely to produce children who lie a lot.
But there is also the opposite effect which is also harmful.
A child might be so hurt by his parent's lies that he tries to be as different from them as possible, becoming incapable to lie and being too honest, which is an evolutionary disadvantage.
Does narcissism work in same way?
If parents are narcissists, their children can also be narcissists, because people copy each other's behavior and children copy more than others.
But what is the opposite case? What is the case where child hates his parents so he tries to be furthest thing from a narcissist?
Instead of wanting for people to praise him, he goes the opposite way, he doesnt care for a praise, doesnt try to get it, he even hates praise, or he tries to avoid being praised, or does nothing to get praise.
This behavior might be harmful, because people are usually motivated by praise, and by ignoring praise, person might lose motivation in life.
From this, we see that negative parent's behavior can produce two possible negative outcomes:
1. Child copying negaive behavior
Or
2. Child going in other extreme and trying to create total opposite behavior that is also negative.