How narcissists see the social world? Trust, cynicism, and trifurcated model of narcissism
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How narcissists see the social world? Trust, cynicism, and trifurcated model of narcissism Piotr Szymczak 1
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Artur Sawicki 2 & Mateusz Jaworski 1
Accepted: 20 November 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The aim of the current study (N = 238) was to examine the relationship between narcissistic personality, depicted by the Trifurcated Model of Narcissism (namely, agentic extraversion, antagonism, and narcissistic neuroticism) and beliefs about human nature: interpersonal trust (the belief that human nature is good) and cynicism (the belief that human nature is evil and egoistic). Former studies on cynicism and trust in relation to vulnerable and grandiose narcissism bring inconsistent findings. We found that agentic extraversion was positively related to trust and unrelated to cynicism, antagonism was negatively related to trust and positively related to cynicism, and narcissistic neuroticism was not related to trust nor cynicism. Therefore, our findings indicate that the positive relationship between narcissism and cynical beliefs is limited to its antagonistic aspect so that antagonism is crucial in explaining beliefs held by narcissists towards others. Furthermore, narcissism indicates a positive relationship to trust as it is related to the agentic extraversion aspect, which might be considered as an adaptive aspect of narcissism. Therefore, the current study sheds a light on the relationship between narcissistic personality and beliefs about human nature. Keywords Narcissism . Trust . Cynicism . Trifurcated model of narcissism
Introduction Narcissism as a personality trait is often related to many interpersonal difficulties, mostly because of its relationship with antagonistic attitude toward others (Back et al., 2013; Miller et al., 2018; Vize, Collison, Miller, & Lynam, 2019; Weiss, Campbell, Lynam, & Miller, 2019; Wurst et al., 2017). These difficulties may occur because of negative beliefs and lack of positive beliefs about human nature, which could then lead to lack of engagement in positive and stable interpersonal relations or even toward hostile and vindictive behaviors (Miller, Campbell, & Pilkonis, 2007; Miller, Price, Gentile, Lynam, & Campbell, 2012). * Piotr Szymczak [email protected] Artur Sawicki [email protected] Mateusz Jaworski [email protected] 1
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Wóycickiego 1/3 Street, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland
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University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Common consensus exists that two expressions of narcissism can be distinguished, namely grandiose and vulnerable (Wink, 1991). However, an ongoing debate on their independence and shared core takes place (Krizan & Herlache, 2018; Miller et al., 2016). One of two recently proposed theories postulates that a trait “located” between grandiose and vulnerable dimensions of narcissism is antagonism (Crowe, Lynam, Campbell, & Miller, 2019; Miller et al., 2016), which seems to be particularly important in explaining social functioning of the narcissis
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