What is the relationship between facets of narcissism and women's body image?

Swami, Viren; Cass, Lauren M.; Waseem, Maryem; Furham, Adrian

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.08.006

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“…This is consistent with previous results showing that narcissistic vulnerability is characterized by a reliance on external factors such as physical appearance for self-esteem regulation [42]. These results also align with findings from past studies showing narcissistic vulnerability to be a risk factor for an array of concerns related to body image [82,83]. Taken together, these results suggest that appearance-related concerns likely play an important role in the connection between narcissistic vulnerability and exercise addiction.…”

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Narcissism and Exercise Addiction: The Mediating Roles of Exercise-Related Motives

Zeigler‐Hill

Besser

Gabay

et al. 2021

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The present research examined whether the associations that narcissistic personality features had with exercise addiction were mediated by particular motives for engaging in exercise in a large Israeli community sample (N = 2629). The results revealed that each aspect of narcissism was positively associated with exercise addiction. Narcissistic admiration and narcissistic rivalry had similar positive indirect associations with exercise addiction through the interpersonal motive for exercise. However, these aspects of narcissism diverged in their indirect associations with exercise addiction through psychological motives, body-related motives, and fitness motives for exercise such that these indirect associations were positive for narcissistic admiration but negative for narcissistic rivalry. Narcissistic vulnerability had positive indirect associations with exercise addiction through body-related motives and fitness motives that were similar to those observed for narcissistic admiration. These results suggest that exercise-related motives may play important roles in the associations that narcissistic personality features have with exercise addiction. The discussion will focus on the implications of these results for understanding the complex connections between narcissism and exercise addiction.

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confidence: 92%

Narcissism and Exercise Addiction: The Mediating Roles of Exercise-Related Motives

Zeigler‐Hill

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Gabay

et al. 2021

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“…In the current study, zero-order correlations showed that neurotic and antagonistic narcissism were significantly positively related to drive for thinness. These results support previous studies that suggested that vulnerable narcissism (reflecting the neurotic and antagonistic aspects) would be predictive of thinness concerns (Gordon & Dombeck, 2011;Swami et al, 2015).…”

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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

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Schulte²,

Geukes³

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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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“…The relationship between narcissism and body perceptions has been investigated in several studies, indicating that maladaptive aspects of narcissism have a connection with negative body image in both sexes (Purton et al, 2018;Swami, Cass, Waseem, & Furham, 2015), whereas more adaptive aspects of narcissism are associated with a positive body image (Carrotte & Anderson, 2019;Lipowska & Lipowski, 2019). In the present study, our primary interest was not body image, but the perception of the size of socially and culturally relevant body parts, such as the heart, brains, head circumference, lungs, and hands.…”

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Mine is Bigger than Yours! Narcissism Predicts Biases in Perceived Head Size

Lyons

Blinkhorn²,

Collier³

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The expression big headed is often used to describe narcissists, however is it possible that this term signals a bias in how narcissists perceive themselves? We tested whether narcissistic traits predicted biases in the estimated size and weight of specific body parts, including head circumference and brain weight. In two questionnaire-based studies, participants estimated the size or weight of parts of their body. In Study 1 (n = 316), we found that the Leadership/Authority facet of narcissism significantly predicted greater estimates of head circumference in men, but lower estimates of head circumference in women. In Study 2 (n = 275), we found that when a sexspecific average head circumference was not provided, Leadership/Authority predicted greater estimates of head circumference overall. We present evidence that narcissism predicts biases in estimated head size and brain weight, but that the precise nature of these biases is dependent on the provided frame of reference for body size. These results are discussed with reference to within-sex competitive strategies, perceived intelligence and stereotypes for male and female attra ctiveness.

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What is the relationship between facets of narcissism and women's body image?

Cited by 27 publications

References 38 publications

Narcissism and Exercise Addiction: The Mediating Roles of Exercise-Related Motives

Narcissism and Exercise Addiction: The Mediating Roles of Exercise-Related Motives

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

Mine is Bigger than Yours! Narcissism Predicts Biases in Perceived Head Size

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