Department of Psychology.
Bob Shapell School of Social Work.
Psychol Trauma. 2019 Nov;11(8):909-918. doi: 10.1037/tra0000452. Epub 2019 Mar 21.
Abusive acts often involve the use of victims as objects for venting the perpetrators' impulses and urges; they may therefore be conceptualized as objectifying experiences and may lead to self-objectification. This sense of self-objectification may lead to the development of narcissism-either grandiose narcissism or vulnerable narcissism, with the potential interruption of dissociation, which is often observed among survivors of childhood abuse in this dynamic. Accordingly, the current study examined a model in which the associations between childhood maltreatment and narcissism were mediated by self-objectification and moderated by dissociation.
A battery of self-report questionnaires including the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, Self-Objectification Scale, Brief-Pathological Narcissism Inventory, and Dissociative Experiences Scale were filled out by 766 college-university students.
Both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism were related to childhood maltreatment through the mediating role of self-objectification. Moreover, the analyses yielded significant interactions of self-objectification and dissociation in predicting both vulnerable narcissism and grandiose narcissism; that is, the associations between self-objectification and both types of narcissism were stronger among individuals with low levels of dissociation than among those with high levels of dissociation.
These findings highlight the complex and ambiguous role of dissociation in the structure of the survivors' self and emphasize the importance of promoting their sense of subjectivity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
虐待行为通常涉及将受害者用作发泄施害者冲动和欲望的对象；因此，可以将其概念化为客观化的体验，并可能导致自我客观化。这种自我客观化感可能导致自恋的发展——要么是夸大性自恋，要么是脆弱性自恋，可能会中断解离，在这种动态中，经常观察到童年虐待幸存者存在这种解离。因此，本研究检验了一个模型，即童年虐待与自恋之间的关联是通过自我客观化来介导的，由解离来调节。
766 名大学生填写了一整套自我报告问卷，包括童年创伤问卷、自我客观化量表、简要病理性自恋量表和解离体验量表。
通过自我客观化的中介作用，夸大性和脆弱性自恋都与童年虐待有关。此外，分析结果显示，自我客观化和解离在预测脆弱性自恋和夸大性自恋方面存在显著的交互作用；也就是说，自我客观化与这两种自恋的关联在解离程度较低的个体中比在解离程度较高的个体中更强。
这些发现强调了解离在幸存者自我结构中的复杂和模糊作用，并强调了促进其主体性意识的重要性。
