Does Communal Context Bring the Worst in Narcissists?

• Authors: Anna Z. Czarna , Anna Czerniak , Andrzej Szmajke
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present experiment (N = 95) investigated the relations of narcissism with social value orientation under façade conditions of testing communal or agentic traits (or none - in a control condition). The results indicated that narcissism predicted less willingness to share resources with others and more competitive orientation in a façade communal condition compared to the remaining two conditions: control and agentic. The results confirm narcissistic disregard for communal domain and are consistent with the extended agency model of narcissism and the “success as a drawback” effect.

Keywords

EN

narcissism; social value orientation; communion; agency; “success as a drawback” effect

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 464-468

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2014-12-16

Contributors

author

Anna Z. Czarna

• Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Al. Mickiewicza 3, 31-120 Krakow, Poland

author

Anna Czerniak

• Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

author

Andrzej Szmajke

• Opole University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ppb-2014-0056