Risk Factor or Protective Feature? The Roles of Grandiose and Hypersensitive Narcissism in Explaining the Relationship between Self-Objectification and Body Image Concerns

Carrotte, Elise Rose; Anderson, Joel

doi:10.1007/s11199-018-0948-y

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“…Their bodies’ ability to create life may fill them with a sense of meaning and self-pride (Clark, Skouteris, Wertheim, Paxton, & Milgrom, 2009b; Watson, Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Broadbent, & Skouteris, 2015), feelings that are in line with the grandiosity attributes. It may also reflect the general tendency of individuals with high levels of narcissism to report on a positive body image (Carrotte & Anderson, 2018). At the same time, the negative association between grandiose narcissism and body experience during pregnancy may result from the discomfort that stems from the rapid uncontrollable changes that are imposed by the pregnancy, including but not limited to symptoms such as fatigue, nausea, and weight gain.…”

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“I will love you (me) forever”—A longitudinal study of narcissism and emotional adjustment during the transition to motherhood.

Talmon¹,

Finzi‐Dottan²,

Ginzburg³

2021

Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

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The aim of this study is to examine the differential implications of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism for women’s adjustment during the transition to motherhood. A total of 385 Israeli women participated in the study during their pregnancy (Time 1) and 2 months postpartum (Time 2). Participants filled out a battery of questionnaires assessing their levels of narcissism (Time 1), the body experience during pregnancy (Time 1) and motherhood (Time 2), their attachment to the fetus (Time 1) and to the baby (Time 2), their anticipated maternal self-efficacy (Time 1) and maternal self-efficacy (Time 2), and their subjective well-being (Time 2). Results suggest that grandiose narcissism was associated with higher levels of well-being at Time 2 through the mediation of both attachment to the infant at Time 1 and bonding to the baby at Time 2 and through positive body experience at Time 2. Vulnerable narcissism was associated with lower levels of well-being at Time 2 through the mediation of body experience and maternal self-efficacy at Time 1 and Time 2 and attachment to the infant at Time 2. These findings point to the significant and differential role of vulnerable and grandiose narcissism in the adjustment to motherhood through the mediating role of early motherhood tasks.

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“I will love you (me) forever”—A longitudinal study of narcissism and emotional adjustment during the transition to motherhood.

Talmon¹,

Finzi‐Dottan²,

Ginzburg³

2021

Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

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“…Empirically, there is evidence that vulnerable (but not grandiose) narcissism in women is positively related to body shame (Carrotte & Anderson, 2019) and body dissatisfaction (Purton et al, 2018), whereas grandiose narcissistic women reported particularly positive body images (Jackson et al, 1992). Some studies have examined thinness-related concerns in particular (Brunton et al, 2005;Gordon & Dombeck, 2010;Maples et al, 2011;Swami et al, 2015;Thomaes & Sedikides, 2016), and the results have again varied as a function of the narcissism facet that was considered: Aspects allocable to vulnerable narcissism were positively related to drive for thinness; grandiose aspects had no or even protective effects on the degree of thinness concerns (for an overview, see also Bardone-Cone et al, 2020).…”

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Disentangling the Contributions of Agentic, Antagonistic, and Neurotic Narcissism to Drive for Thinness and Drive for Muscularity

Hater¹,

Schulte²,

Geukes³

et al. 2021

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Body image concerns revolving around body ideals (thin ideal, muscular ideal) are widespread among women. Whereas a stronger preoccupation with ideal physical appearance is often assumed for narcissistic women, previous empirical findings have been mixed. Following a tripartite structure of agentic, antagonistic, and neurotic narcissism facets, we reexamined whether trait narcissism predicted drive for thinness and drive for muscularity. We further explored the role of importance of appearance as a mediator and moderator of the relation between narcissism and body image concerns. Latent structural equation modeling was applied to self-report data from two independent nonclinical female samples (NSample1 = 224, NSample2 = 342). Results underlined the importance of distinguishing between narcissism facets: Neurotic (but not agentic or antagonistic) narcissism uniquely predicted drive for thinness and drive for muscularity. Importance of appearance mediated but did not robustly moderate these relations. Hence, neurotic narcissistic women (characterized by hypersensitivity, shame, and a fragile self-esteem) are particularly prone to body image concerns. This vulnerability seems partly driven by how much importance they ascribe to their appearance. Future work might build on these insights to further unravel the processes linking neurotic narcissism to body image concerns and how these can be targeted in practical interventions.

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“…This warrants scepticism based on the multifaceted nature of each of the traits. For example, narcissism is a multifaceted trait which can manifest as either vulnerable or grandiose, and the distinction is known to differently predict socially-relevant outcomes (Carrotte & Anderson, 2018;Swami, Cass, Waseem, & Furham, 2015), however the narcissism-based items on the SD3 solely tap characteristics of the grandiose narcissist (Rohmann, Neumann, Herner, & Bierhoff, 2012). Thus, to best estimate the relationships between the dark traits and both explicit and implicit anti-gay attitudes, future research may consider implementing a larger and more thorough measure of the triad/tetrad.…”

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Predicting explicit and implicit attitudes towards gay men using the dual process model of prejudice and the dark tetrad

Moor

Kapelles

Koç

et al. 2019

Personality and Individual Differences

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Risk Factor or Protective Feature? The Roles of Grandiose and Hypersensitive Narcissism in Explaining the Relationship between Self-Objectification and Body Image Concerns

Cited by 21 publications

References 50 publications

“I will love you (me) forever”—A longitudinal study of narcissism and emotional adjustment during the transition to motherhood.

“I will love you (me) forever”—A longitudinal study of narcissism and emotional adjustment during the transition to motherhood.

Disentangling the Contributions of Agentic, Antagonistic, and Neurotic Narcissism to Drive for Thinness and Drive for Muscularity

Predicting explicit and implicit attitudes towards gay men using the dual process model of prejudice and the dark tetrad

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