Narcissism and personal values: Investigation into agentic, antagonistic, communal and neurotic facets of narcissism

Nowak, Bartłomiej; Brzóska, Paweł; Piotrowski, Jarosław; Żemojtel‐Piotrowska, Magdalena

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.111167

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“…The reasons for such a failure could be the nature of communal self-enhancement: derogation of others is opposite to being kind, benevolent, or friendly, so it is a poor way to restore the puffed communal self. In the current paper, we propose an alternative way to frame communal narcissism, respecting the specificity of communal narcissism as a distinct form of grandiose narcissism (Nowak et al, 2022;Gebauer & Sedikides, 2018;Sedikides, 2021). Specifically, we attempt to understand the communal side of grandiose narcissism by developing and testing a conceptual model that separates egoboosting (i.e., narcissistic sanctity) and ego-defending (i.e., narcissistic heroism) aspects of communal narcissism.…”

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Looking into Communal Narcissism: Narcissistic Sanctity and Heroism

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In the current paper we introduce a new conceptualization of communal narcissism, as encompassed by two narcissistic strategies congruent with self-promotion and self-defensive motives. In addition, we posit that communal narcissistic strategies should be aligned with communal self-enhancement. Therefore, we propose narcissistic sanctity as an ego-boosting strategy and narcissistic heroism as an ego-defensive strategy. In a series of eleven studies (N = 5,606) we develop, validate, and employ what we will call the Narcissistic Sanctity and Heroism Concept. We found the scale to be a robust measure of communal narcissism and that the two postulated strategies are psychologically distinct while psychometrically sound. Specifically, we found that narcissistic sanctity was related to implicit and explicit communion, communal (but not agentic) self-enhancement and explained more socially (as compared to heroism) acceptable functioning in close relationships, being positively correlated with prosocialness via denying one’s egoistic motivations. Narcissistic heroism, on the other hand, was related both to agency and communion, it was unrelated to communal self-enhancement, explained less socially acceptable (as compared to sanctity) functioning in close relationships, and was related to less prosocialness via egoistic motivation. In sum, a newly proposed model of communal narcissism sheds new light on prior research on communal narcissism, explaining null relationships between communal self-presentation and actual behaviors in the communal domain.

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Looking into Communal Narcissism: Narcissistic Sanctity and Heroism

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Piotrowski²,

Sawicki³

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“…Narcissistic rivalry is not confined to passive intrapersonal cognitions like devaluing others in one's own mind but readily extends to interpersonal behaviors like revenge (Back et al, 2013). Furthermore, narcissistic rivalry is associated with a lack of empathy, trust, forgiveness, and gratitude (Back et al, 2013) and antisocial motivations (Nowak et al, 2022). Hence, we propose:…”

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“…Further developments in the last decade endeavored to provide a complete picture of the broader "grandiose narcissism" construct, and two models of narcissism emerged. One is the agency-communion model of narcissism , and the other is the narcissistic admiration and rivalry concept (Back et al, 2013), and together they provide a comprehensive representation of "grandiose narcissism" (Kwiatkowska, Jułkowski, Rogoza, Żemojtel-Piotrowska, & Fatfouta, 2019;Nowak, Brzóska, Piotrowski, & Żemojtel-Piotrowska, 2022).…”

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