Center for Research on Self and Identity, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
Center for Research on Self and Identity, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2022 Aug;46:101322. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101322. Epub 2022 Feb 28.
Narcissists are prone to conspicuous consumption, that is, preference for luxury over mundane products. We analyze four reasons for their conspicuous consumption: positive distinctiveness (individuation and status), meaning in life, materialism, and sexual signaling. Empirical support for these reasons ranges from good to preliminary. We then discuss directions that this nascent literature could take. These include a consideration of different forms of narcissism (grandiose vs. vulnerable, agentic vs. communal, admirative vs. rivalrous), the value of experimentation in clarifying the causal flow from narcisissm to conspicuous consumption and also from conspicuous consumption to state narcissism, as well as the (mostly negative) consequences of conspicuous consumptions for narcisissm and society.
自恋者倾向于炫耀性消费，即偏爱奢侈品而非普通产品。我们分析了他们炫耀性消费的四个原因：积极独特性（个性化和地位）、生活意义、物质主义和性信号。这些原因的实证支持程度从良好到初步不等。然后，我们讨论了这一新兴文献可能的发展方向。这些方向包括考虑不同形式的自恋（浮夸型与脆弱型、自主型与共感型、赞赏型与竞争型）、实验在厘清自恋与炫耀性消费之间以及炫耀性消费与状态自恋之间的因果关系方面的价值，以及炫耀性消费对自恋和社会的（大多是负面的）后果。
