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The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of relationship authenticity on the relationship between covert narcissism and romantic relationship satisfaction among university students. For this, a questionnaire survey was conducted on 586 university students in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Incheon and Chungcheong-do 502 of them(males 185, females 317)were used for the analysis. To explore the relationship between each variable, the analysis of mediating effect was conducted through verification and correlational analysis to average difference by sex and Baron and Kenny (1986), and the analysis of mediating effect through Baron and Kenny(1986) method was conducted. The results of analyzing the gathered data showed that, first, covert narcissism was higher in male students than female students. Second, between covert narcissism, relationship authenticity and romantic relationship satisfaction, there is a negative correlation. Also, relationship authenticity and romantic relationship satisfaction, there is a positive correlation. Third, all sub-factors of relationship authenticity were partially mediated the relationship between covert narcissism and romantic relationship satisfaction. Fourth, the result of verifying the mediating effect of sub-factors for relationship authenticity showed that there is a full mediating effect in fear of revealing the true self in male students. Sub-factors of relationship authenticity were partially mediated the fear of revealing the true self and unacceptability of deception in females. Finally, based on these results, implications and limits were discussed.