Freis Stephanie D, Brunell Amy B
Presbyterian College, 503 South Broad St., Clinton, SC 29325, United States of America.
Ohio State University - Mansfield, 1760 University Dr., Mansfield, OH 44906, United States of America.
Pers Individ Dif. 2022 Aug;194:111623. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111623. Epub 2022 Mar 25.
We examined the extent to which trait narcissism was associated with helping behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that people higher in agentic grandiose narcissism would help during the COVID-19 quarantine for egoistic reasons and that communal grandiose narcissists would help because they care for the people in the community. Because vulnerable narcissists tend to self-protect, we expected them to be less helpful overall and report helping to either make themselves feel better or avoid social disapproval. We found supporting evidence such that agentic grandiose narcissists reported helping in a greater number of ways because they were motivated by self-promotion while communal narcissists helped in more ways because they were motivated by concern for others. Vulnerable narcissists reported doing less to help others and a lack of concern for others. Further, we found that the extent to which grandiose narcissists communicated more frequently about their various helping efforts was associated with increased state grandiose narcissism. These findings emphasize the self-focused nature of narcissistic personalities while highlighting unique differences between the narcissistic subtypes.
我们考察了特质自恋与新冠疫情期间帮助行为之间的关联程度。我们假设，在新冠疫情隔离期间，处于主动型夸大自恋状态的人会出于利己原因提供帮助，而处于社群型夸大自恋状态的人会提供帮助是因为他们关心社区中的人。由于脆弱型自恋者倾向于自我保护，我们预计他们总体上提供的帮助较少，并且表示提供帮助要么是为了让自己感觉更好，要么是为了避免社会非议。我们发现了支持性证据，即主动型夸大自恋者报告称通过更多方式提供帮助，因为他们受到自我提升的激励，而社群型自恋者通过更多方式提供帮助是因为他们受到对他人关心的激励。脆弱型自恋者报告称较少为他人提供帮助且缺乏对他人的关心。此外，我们发现夸大自恋者就其各种帮助行为进行更频繁交流的程度与状态夸大自恋的增加有关。这些发现强调了自恋人格以自我为中心的本质，同时突出了自恋亚型之间的独特差异。
