The Relationship between narcissistic personality and vulnerable attachment with bullying and psychological capital

Introduction: The purpose of this research was to investigate the structural model of the relationship between narcissistic personality and vulnerable attachment with bullying and psychological capital.
Method: The design of the research was correlation and the statistical population was all of telecommunications company employees in Tehran while 345 employees were selected as sample using simple random sampling. Research tools included psychological capital questionnaire (Golparvar & Vaseghi, 2011), researcher made bullying questionnaire, vulnerable attachment styles questionnaire (Bifulco et al, 2006) and narcissistic personality inventory (Ames et al, 2003). Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling (SEM).
Results: Results of structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that vulnerable attachment has direct and significant relationship with bullying and bullying along with narcissistic personality has direct and significant relationship with psychological capital. The results also showed that bullying is a complete mediator variable on the relationship between vulnerable attachments with psychological capital.
Discussion and Conclusion: The results of this study showed that vulnerable attachment along with narcissistic personality and bullying can directly and indirectly undermines the psychological capital in humans.