NARCISSISM BEHAVIOUR AND ACCOUNTING UNDERGRADUATE PERFORMANCE IN HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION

Narcissism personality is a person thinking they are better than other and prior study conducted found it has significant correlation with student education performance. Individual with narcissistic personality tend to have strong entitlement, authority, self-admiration and superiority. This personality has both cognitive and motivational elements. The student with narcissistic behaviour tend to always improve themselves. There were lack of studies in examining narcissistic personality in Malaysia. The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between narcissistic personalities among accounting undergraduate in Malaysia. This study intend to examine if the non-pathological narcissistic personality are related to the individual performance. The primary data on Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) test were collected from 35 accounting students. The test used was adequate to Malaysia context. Dependent variable in this study is student cumulative grade point average (CGPA) and independent variable are narcissistic personality elements. This study found significant relationship between NPI and accounting undergraduate academic performance. This study may be useful to the educator and higher learning institution in determining the accounting student narcissistic behaviour and their education performance. There are greater needs of attention paid to phenomenon of narcissistic personality traits among undergraduates because negative traits can be harmful to them. Self-esteem can lead to the negative result in the long term. (C) 2020 Published by European Publisher.