I understand why anyone disagrees and I can certainly be incorrect. I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist or even a therapist. Just a layman, who has taken a couple of college psychiatry course and have been associated with the hospital/healthcare industry for nearly three decades. An expert? I am not and far from one on the topic.
I am aware human beings often disqualify many things they observe of others automatically, even in personal day-to-day interactions, as typical behavior. Plus, personality disorder is not something usually known contextually. There are definitive qualifiers for atypical behaviors. Matching a minimum number of qualifiers identifies probable disorder. The following are a minimum of five qualifiers of narcissistic personality dsorder for discussion:
- Exaggerates own importance
- Is preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, beauty, intelligence or ideal romance
- Requires constant attention and admiration from others
- Has unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment
- Takes advantage of others to reach his or her own goals
There are additional qualifiers but only five are required. Here are a few more qualifiers:
- Disregards the feelings of others, lacks empathy
- Shows arrogant behaviors and attitudes
Those are qualifiers that would certainly have been applicable of narcissistic behavior like the example of Jones' public behavior to a stimuli you provided. Yet, only five qualifiers are necessary for discerning narcissism as I mentioned earlier. It is not imperative that any personality disorder is both observable and must match every qualifier known to associate with it.
Is Jones a narcissist? Maybe not. However, I could match public examples of Jerry Jones' behavior to each of the five qualifiers listed earlier. Perhaps they do not automatically pin him as a narcissist but they certainly lend credibillity that he is one by medcal definition in my opinion.