Long Island University - Brooklyn, New York.
Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.
J Pers Disord. 2021 Oct;35(5):691-707. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2020_34_492. Epub 2020 Oct 27.
Previous research has shown that narcissism is associated with interpersonal difficulties and maladaptive affective responses to social rejection. In the current studies, the authors examined two phenotypes of pathological narcissism, narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability, and their impact on individuals' affective responses in two distinctive social rejection paradigms. Participants from Study 1 (N = 239), recruited from a multicultural university and Amazon's Mechanical Turk, completed Cyberball, a computerized social rejection paradigm. Participants from Study 2 (N = 238) were recruited from a multicultural university and participated in an in vivo group rejection paradigm in a laboratory. Results indicated that following the rejection in both studies, narcissistic vulnerability positively predicted explicit negative affect and state anger. In addition, the positive relationship between narcissistic vulnerability and explicit negative affect was moderated by greater implicit negative affect in Study 2. The implications and limitations of these findings are discussed.
先前的研究表明，自恋与人际困难和对社会拒绝的适应不良的情感反应有关。在当前的研究中，作者研究了病理性自恋的两种表现型，即自恋的夸大和自恋的脆弱，并研究了它们在两种不同的社会拒绝范式中对个体情感反应的影响。研究 1（N=239）的参与者来自一所多元文化的大学和亚马逊的 Mechanical Turk，完成了计算机化的社会拒绝范式“Cyberball”。研究 2（N=238）的参与者来自一所多元文化的大学，并在实验室的现场小组拒绝范式中参与了研究。结果表明，在两项研究中，在被拒绝后，自恋脆弱性正向预测了明显的负面情绪和状态愤怒。此外，在研究 2 中，更大的内隐负面情绪调节了自恋脆弱性与明显负面情绪之间的正相关关系。讨论了这些发现的意义和局限性。
