Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Warsaw, Poland.
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2020 Oct;59(4):857-875. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12367. Epub 2020 Feb 11.
We examined the associations between the need for personal control, different types of ingroup commitment, and group-related outcomes: (1) defensive responses to ingroup criticism, (2) ingroup disloyalty, and (3) outgroup attitudes. We assumed that collective narcissism (i.e., a belief in ingroup's greatness which is contingent on external validation and stems from frustrated individual needs) should be concerned with defending the ingroup image and derogating outgroups, but not necessarily with being loyal to the ingroup. Secure ingroup identification (i.e., a confidently held ingroup evaluation, which stems from satisfied needs), in contrast, should predict greater ingroup loyalty and positive outgroup attitudes. We expected these effects to be especially strong once we account for the overlap between collective narcissism and group-level self-investment - a key component of ingroup identification. In a nationally representative sample of Polish adults (n = 1,007), collective narcissism (net of group-level self-investment) mediated between low personal control and ingroup image defense, lower group loyalty, and less positive outgroup attitudes. Secure ingroup identification (group-level self-investment net of collective narcissism) mediated between high personal control and ingroup loyalty and positive outgroup attitudes. It was not associated with ingroup image defense. Implications for understanding the role of identification in inter- and intra-group relations are discussed.
我们考察了个人控制需求、不同类型的内群体承诺与群体相关结果之间的关系：（1）对内群体批评的防御反应，（2）对内群体的不忠，以及（3）对外群体的态度。我们假设集体自恋（即相信内群体的伟大，这取决于外部的认可，源于受挫的个人需求）应该与捍卫内群体形象和贬低外群体有关，但不一定与对内群体忠诚有关。相比之下，安全的内群体认同（即对内群体的自信评价，源于满足的需求）应该预测更大的内群体忠诚和对外群体的积极态度。我们预计，一旦我们考虑到集体自恋和群体层面自我投资之间的重叠——内群体认同的一个关键组成部分，这些影响会尤其强烈。在一项对波兰成年人的全国代表性样本（n=1007）的研究中，集体自恋（在群体层面自我投资的基础上）在个人控制水平低与内群体形象防御、群体忠诚度低和对外群体态度不积极之间起到了中介作用。安全的内群体认同（在集体自恋的基础上）在个人控制水平高与内群体忠诚度和对外群体态度积极之间起到了中介作用。它与内群体形象防御没有关系。该研究对理解认同在群体内外关系中的作用具有启示意义。
