1 University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2 York University, Ontario, Canada.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2017 Feb;43(2):233-244. doi: 10.1177/0146167216678862.
Are people who are high in sexual narcissism more sensitive to information comparing their sex lives with the sex lives of others? Does this sensitivity explain narcissists' lower sexual and relationship satisfaction? We conducted three studies to address this question. Participants completed the Sexual Narcissism Scale (Widman & McNulty, 2010), and then either recalled (Study 1), imagined (Study 2), or actually made (Study 3) a sexual comparison. We found that people high in sexual narcissism (compared with those lower in sexual narcissism) were more bothered when comparing themselves with someone with a higher sexual frequency and felt better about a comparison with someone with a lower sexual frequency. In turn, narcissists' greater sensitivity to upward social comparisons predicted lower sexual and relationship satisfaction. These results suggest that those high in sexual narcissism may use downward sexual comparisons to maintain their grandiose self-views and be particularly sensitive to upward sexual comparisons.
性自恋程度高的人是否对比较自己性生活和他人性生活的信息更敏感？这种敏感性是否可以解释自恋者较低的性满足感和关系满意度？我们进行了三项研究来解决这个问题。参与者完成了性自恋量表（Widman & McNulty，2010），然后回忆（研究 1）、想象（研究 2）或实际进行（研究 3）性比较。我们发现，与性自恋程度较低的人相比，性自恋程度较高的人在与性频率较高的人进行比较时会感到更加困扰，而与性频率较低的人进行比较时则会感觉更好。反过来，自恋者对向上社会比较的敏感性更高，这预示着他们的性满足感和关系满意度较低。这些结果表明，那些性自恋程度较高的人可能会使用向下的性比较来维持自己的夸大自我观念，并且对向上的性比较特别敏感。
