DOI: 10.4018/IJSKD.2020070104 International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development Volume 12 • Issue 3 • July-September 2020 Copyright © 2020, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. 60 Narcissism as a Determinant of Job Satisfaction Among University Teaching Staf in India Pawan Kumar Chand, Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, Punjab, India Rahul Dhiman, Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0521-3342 Amit Mittal, Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, Punjab, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1191-4620 Deepika Jhamb, Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, Punjab, India ABSTRACT This study is an attempt to understand the relationship between narcissism and job satisfaction in the context of teachers in a university set-up. Previous research has considered narcissism as a personality disorder and considers it unhealthy for organizations and individuals. In order to understand the construct of narcissism, and how it impacts on job satisfaction, 560 university teachers out of which187 females and 373 males were chosen from public and private higher educational institutions of India. The data was collected by administering a standardized questionnaire and the results were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings of the study suggest that extreme narcissism and healthy narcissism lead to a significant increase in job satisfaction. KeywoRDS Academia, Job Satisfaction, Narcissism, University Teachers 1. INTRoDUCTIoN The term Narcissism got its origin and recognition from the story of a young man Narcissus, who is known to be the son of the river God Cephissus and nymph Liriope according to Greek mythology. Greek Myths and Greek Mythology (2012). He was in extreme love with his self-image and he used to see his image in the water of the river most of the time. His acute self-love towards his reflection in the water eventually leads to his death. Later the word Narcissism got its popularity by Havelock Ellis, a ‘psychologist’ in the year 1898 in the article ‘Narcissisms’ (Akhtar and Thomson, 1982; Pulver, 1970). Narcissism was recognized by the researcher Freud in 1910 as a personality and a behavioural trait in terms of ‘Narcissist’ Freud (1914). Narcissism shows the personality of an individual with the characteristics of self-love, the grandiose sense of consideration to self - importance and privileged Duchon and Drakes (2009).