The Relationship between Multidimensional Narcissism, Explicit and Implicit Self-Esteem in Eating Disorders

Boucher, Katrine; Bégin, Catherine; Gagnon‐Girouard, Marie‐Pierre; Ratté, Carole

doi:10.4236/psych.2015.615200

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“…Such results may indicate the narcissistic character of self-esteem in contemporary young adults. The relationship between self-esteem and narcissism as predictors of eating disorders was indicated by Boucher et al (2015) . Compulsive episodes of eating may, according to Tamhane (2017) , be a continuation of restrictive eating behavior, helping to maintain self-esteem in the context of the need to implement sociocultural patterns of appearance.…”

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Psychological Predictors of Unhealthy Eating Attitudes in Young Adults

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The objective of this study was to determine the predictive role of psychological risk factors for restrained and compulsive eating in young women and men. We examined the relationship between resilience, impulsivity, emotional intelligence and self-esteem, and restrained and compulsive eating. It was assumed that resilience and impulsivity can directly explain unhealthy eating attitudes (restrained and compulsive: both emotional eating and external eating). The study group comprised 211 individuals (105 men and 106 women) aged 20–29, all of whom were living in southern Poland. Measures included the Resilience Measurement Scale (SPP-25), the Eysenck’s Impulsivity Inventory (IVE), the Multidimensional Self-Esteem Inventory (MSEI), the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (INTE), and the Polish adaptation of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ). The statistical analysis showed significant and positive correlations between emotional eating and general self-esteem, impulsivity, and weaker (but still significant) correlations with physical attractiveness. External eating was positively and significantly correlated with impulsivity and self-esteem (including physical attractiveness). Restrained eating was also positively and significantly correlated with general self-esteem. Both types of compulsive eating attitudes (emotional and external eating) were significantly and negatively correlated with resilience. Women showed a significantly higher positive correlation between impulsivity and external eating compared to men. The level of intensity of other measures proved similar across the entire study group regardless of sex. Impulsivity had the strongest and most direct significant influence on both emotional eating and external eating, and a negative effect on emotional intelligence. Resilience proved to have a significant impact on all three examined types of eating attitude (a direct negative effect on emotional eating and external eating, and positive direct effect on restrained eating), self-esteem, and emotional intelligence. An important psychological intervening variable in generating unhealthy eating attitudes proved to be self-esteem among both men and women. Emotional intelligence, which remains correlated with resilience, proved independent, with no effect on unhealthy eating attitudes. These results suggest that preventive treatment and educational programs implemented particularly among adolescents and young adults may support development of their psychological resources.

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“…Second, the notion that indirect measures of self-esteem (e.g., the self-esteem Implicit Association Test, the Initials-Preferences task) may reveal low self-worth or negative self-concepts among grandiose individuals were appealing (Jordan, Spencer, Zanna, Hoshino-Browne, & Correll, 2003; Zeigler-Hill, 2006), but despite some initial support, it again did not fare well in subsequent replications (Bosson et al, 2008; Boucher, Bégin, Gagnon-Girouard, & Ratté, 2015; Marissen, Brouwer, Hiemstra, Deen, & Franken, 2016; Vater et al, 2013). Moreover, there are serious doubts about whether these indirect self-esteem measures actually capture self-evaluations inaccessible to awareness (Buhrmester, Blanton, & Swann, 2011; Krizan, 2008).…”

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The Narcissism Spectrum Model: A Synthetic View of Narcissistic Personality

Križan

Herlache

2017

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

579

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The narcissism spectrum model synthesizes extensive personality, social-psychological, and clinical evidence, building on existing knowledge about narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability to reveal a view of narcissism that respects its clinical origins, embraces the diversity and complexity of its expression, and reflects extensive scientific evidence about the continuity between normal and abnormal personality expression. Critically, the proposed model addresses three key, inter-related problems that have plagued narcissism scholarship for more than a century. These problems can be summarized as follows: (a) What are the key features of narcissism? (b) How are they organized and related to each other? and (c) Why are they organized that way, that is, what accounts for their relationships? By conceptualizing narcissistic traits as manifested in transactional processes between individuals and their social environments, the model enables integration of existing theories of narcissism and thus provides a compelling perspective for future examination of narcissism and its developmental pathways.

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“…A study conducted by Bruno et al found positive correlation between extensive exercise and narcissism, with both being connected to a lower self-esteem [ 20 ]. Although vulnerable narcissism and self-esteem are not directly co-dependent, both of them can be predictors of specific behaviors, including eating disorders [ 24 , 25 ]. Another interesting element in fitness users is their aspiration for achieving a “perfect” physical appearance.…”

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Orthorexia nervosa and its association with narcissism in fitness center users

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Purpose Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is an eating behavior where patients obsessively try to reach health through “purity” of food. Narcissism is a personality trait characterized with the self-belief of grandiosity, importance and need of appreciation. Both of these conditions are connected through self-image in way of reaching perfection through health and body image, whereas one of the ways for reaching it is exercising. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate ON and its possible association with narcissism in fitness center users. Methods The study included 1017 fitness center users and three questionnaires were used for the assessment: general information, ORTO-R and Narcissistic personality inventory-13 (NPI-13). Results There was a significant negative correlation ( r = − 0.467, p < 0.001) between the ORTO-R score and the NPI-13 score. Comparison of the ORTO-R score between different durations of using a fitness center showed statistically significant differences ( H = 134.72, p < 0.001). The subjects who are using the fitness center for less than 1 year have the highest ORTO-R score, while those who are using it 1–3 years have the lowest ORTO-R score. Moreover, multiple linear regression showed that ORTO-R score retained significant association with NPI-13 (β ± SE, − 0.416 ± 0.026, p < 0.001) and the duration of using a fitness center (0.576 ± 0.068, p < 0.001) after model adjustment for age and BMI. Conclusion These results are implying that fitness center users could possibly be vulnerable of developing ON and that there is a strong association between ON and narcissism in this population. However, future larger-scale longitudinal studies are needed to address these findings. Level of evidence Level V, cross-sectional survey-based study.

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The Relationship between Multidimensional Narcissism, Explicit and Implicit Self-Esteem in Eating Disorders

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

Psychological Predictors of Unhealthy Eating Attitudes in Young Adults

Psychological Predictors of Unhealthy Eating Attitudes in Young Adults

The Narcissism Spectrum Model: A Synthetic View of Narcissistic Personality

Orthorexia nervosa and its association with narcissism in fitness center users

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