Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.
Personal Disord. 2016 Oct;7(4):363-371. doi: 10.1037/per0000181. Epub 2016 Mar 17.
Current literature on narcissistic personality disorder has emphasized a distinction between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. Some researchers have further suggested that narcissistic persons fluctuate between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. However, this perception has been confined largely to clinical experience with no systematic research testing the hypothesis. Clinicians and clinical psychology professors in the current study identified 143 persons who fit a description of either a grandiose or a vulnerable narcissist and indicated the extent to which these persons ever demonstrated traits of the complementary variant. The results supported the fluctuation hypothesis, particularly for episodes of vulnerable narcissism in persons identified as a grandiose narcissist. Correlations of the grandiose and vulnerable narcissism traits with a brief five-factor model measure corroborated past trait descriptions of the 2 respective variants of narcissism. The results of the current study are compared with existing cross-sectional and longitudinal research, and suggestions for future research are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record
目前关于自恋型人格障碍的文献强调了浮夸型和脆弱型自恋之间的区别。一些研究人员进一步提出，自恋者在浮夸型和脆弱型自恋之间波动。然而，这种看法主要局限于临床经验，没有系统的研究来检验这一假设。本研究中的临床医生和临床心理学教授确定了 143 名符合浮夸型或脆弱型自恋描述的人，并指出这些人表现出互补变体特征的程度。结果支持波动假设，特别是对被认定为浮夸型自恋者的脆弱型自恋发作的支持。与简短的五因素模型测量相关的浮夸型和脆弱型自恋特征与过去对这两种自恋变体的特征描述相符。本研究的结果与现有的横断面和纵向研究进行了比较，并为未来的研究提供了建议。
