Agentic to the core?
- Researchers are still divided over whether narcissists possess positive or negative implicit self-views. Seemingly resolving this issue, Campbell et al. (2007) have demonstrated that narcissism is in fact related to higher implicit self-esteem as long as the implicit measure reflects agency. The present study used a large (N = 730) sample, carefully controlled stimuli, improved statistical analyses, and examined narcissism at the facet-level, but results did not replicate those of Campbell et al. In fact, the latent correlation between narcissism and implicit agency was close to zero, whereas the positive correlation between narcissism and explicit agency was replicated. We conclude that narcissists’ implicit self-views may be more neutral than positive or may depend on other contextual factors.
| Author details: | Ramzi FatfoutaORCiDGND, Michela Schröder-AbeORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2018.02.006 |
| ISSN: | 0092-6566 |
| ISSN: | 1095-7251 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of research in personality |
| Subtitle (English): | facets of narcissism and positive implicit self-views in the agentic domain |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | San Diego |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2018/02/11 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2021/11/29 |
| Tag: | Agency; Communion; IAT; Implicit self-esteem; Narcissism |
| Volume: | 74 |
| Number of pages: | 5 |
| First page: | 78 |
| Last Page: | 82 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
