2024
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-024-06141-y
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Narcissists don’t care about approval: the role of narcissism and status motives in explaining the relationship between self-objectification and approval motivation

Shilei Chen,
Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg,
Nikhila Mahadevan
et al.

Abstract: Prior research has established that women who self-objectify seek approval from others more strongly than women who self-objectify less. Yet the boundary conditions of this link remain largely unexamined. Building on hierometer theory, which postulates that narcissism tracks social status and motivates status-optimizing behaviour, we tested whether the desire for social status (e.g., among narcissists) severed the association between self-objectification and approval seeking. Two cross-sectional studies (NS1 =… Show more

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