Hypothesis Testing A developing child’s mental health is one of utmost importance while growing in life. However, sometimes positive mental health development can be stopped, lessened, or destroyed altogether by the parents that raise them. Narcissism is classified as a personality disorder. This disorder causes a person to feel very exaggerated feelings about themselves. The behavior of a narcissist is that of believing that they are above it all, better than those around them, and that their own lives are more important that another. These types of people crave admiration, love, and attention. However, these people lack compassion and empathy for others. If you pair a narcissistic parent with a developing child you could have a very severe
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This type of sampling works best when trying to look at one particular issue, and then attempting to compare two or more groups. This technique offers a higher change of the study being statistically correct. This method requires dividing the population into groups, and then randomly selecting the final subjects from the different social stratification (Survey Sampling Methods, 2016). This study would have to be conducted with children ages 9 to 13, who have parents with narcissistic disorder or borderline personality disorder since narcissism is one of the main concerns with borderline persons. This study would also need to be done with children who are raised by mentally healthy parents as well, and the children will be the same ages. The sample in this study would be split into two groups. The first group are the children raised by narcissistic parents, and the second group would be children raised by mentally healthy parents. Of course to best conduct this study, it would be in the best interest of the researchers and the parents to have a waiver signed that the children will be able to participate in a study about mental …show more content…
With a two-tailed test, the difference between these two groups were extreme enough to come to the conclusion that the hypothesis about narcissistic parenting and negative mental health problems in children do form a positive correlation. While having a narcissistic parent, the child constantly looks for approvable that is unattainable from the parent. As a person that has experienced this and while conducting this study, it is conclusive that this type of parent does cause some damage to a child’s mental health. The child can lack confidence in their abilities, feel that they are never good enough to complete certain life goals, and overall lack self-esteem. This can be conquered. As hard as it is to have a parent with these tendencies, one can seek therapy later on in life to combat the feelings and problems that have developed in childhood while dealing with this type of parent. The conclusion to this hypothesis testing is that children that experience being raised by narcissistic parents do suffer negative effects to the psyche and their mental health, and these affects can last well into adulthood. “It’s not until the adult children of a narcissist get (a lot of) psychotherapy or have a life-changing experience that pulls them away them from the disturbed parent that these adult children can truly begin to heal – and then create better, more
This type of sampling works best when trying to look at one particular issue, and then attempting to compare two or more groups. This technique offers a higher change of the study being statistically correct. This method requires dividing the population into groups, and then randomly selecting the final subjects from the different social stratification (Survey Sampling Methods, 2016). This study would have to be conducted with children ages 9 to 13, who have parents with narcissistic disorder or borderline personality disorder since narcissism is one of the main concerns with borderline persons. This study would also need to be done with children who are raised by mentally healthy parents as well, and the children will be the same ages. The sample in this study would be split into two groups. The first group are the children raised by narcissistic parents, and the second group would be children raised by mentally healthy parents. Of course to best conduct this study, it would be in the best interest of the researchers and the parents to have a waiver signed that the children will be able to participate in a study about mental …show more content…
With a two-tailed test, the difference between these two groups were extreme enough to come to the conclusion that the hypothesis about narcissistic parenting and negative mental health problems in children do form a positive correlation. While having a narcissistic parent, the child constantly looks for approvable that is unattainable from the parent. As a person that has experienced this and while conducting this study, it is conclusive that this type of parent does cause some damage to a child’s mental health. The child can lack confidence in their abilities, feel that they are never good enough to complete certain life goals, and overall lack self-esteem. This can be conquered. As hard as it is to have a parent with these tendencies, one can seek therapy later on in life to combat the feelings and problems that have developed in childhood while dealing with this type of parent. The conclusion to this hypothesis testing is that children that experience being raised by narcissistic parents do suffer negative effects to the psyche and their mental health, and these affects can last well into adulthood. “It’s not until the adult children of a narcissist get (a lot of) psychotherapy or have a life-changing experience that pulls them away them from the disturbed parent that these adult children can truly begin to heal – and then create better, more