Di Santo Daniela, Lo Destro Calogero, Baldner Conrad, Talamo Alessandra, Cabras Cristina, Pierro Antonio
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy.
Curr Psychol. 2023;42(8):6768-6777. doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-02014-w. Epub 2021 Jun 26.
Positivity (i.e., the individual tendency to positively approach life experiences) has proven to be an effective construct applied in positive psychology. However, individuals' self-regulation may have contrasting effects on positivity. We specifically examined whether positivity could be partially explained through two aspects of motivation concerned with self-regulation: (i.e., a motivational orientation concerned with movement) and (i.e., a motivational orientation concerned with comparison and evaluation). Furthermore, based on previous literature that found a link between these aspects and narcissism, we examined whether "adaptive" and "maladaptive" dimensions of narcissism could mediate the effects of locomotion and assessment on increased or decreased positivity. Narcissism was defined by previous research as adaptive or maladaptive insofar as it leads or does not lead to increased psychological well-being. We estimated a mediation model with multiple independent variables and multiple mediators in a cross-sectional study with self-reported data from 190 university students. We found that both locomotion and assessment were associated with adaptive narcissism, which in turn was positively associated with positivity. However, assessment was also associated with maladaptive narcissism, which in turn was negatively associated with positivity. Relationships between aspects of self-regulation, narcissism, and positivity can have significant implications which will be discussed.
积极性（即个体以积极方式对待生活经历的倾向）已被证明是积极心理学中一种有效的概念。然而，个体的自我调节可能会对积极性产生相反的影响。我们具体研究了积极性是否可以通过与自我调节相关的两个动机方面来部分解释：（即与行动相关的动机取向）和（即与比较和评估相关的动机取向）。此外，基于先前发现这些方面与自恋之间存在联系的文献，我们研究了自恋的“适应性”和“适应不良性”维度是否可以介导行动和评估对积极性增加或减少的影响。先前的研究将自恋定义为适应性或适应不良性，取决于它是否会导致心理健康的增加。在一项横断面研究中，我们使用来自190名大学生的自我报告数据估计了一个具有多个自变量和多个中介变量的中介模型。我们发现，行动和评估都与适应性自恋相关，而适应性自恋又与积极性呈正相关。然而，评估也与适应不良性自恋相关，而适应不良性自恋又与积极性呈负相关。自我调节、自恋和积极性之间的关系可能具有重要意义，将在文中进行讨论。
