Zeigler-Hill Virgil, Vonk Jennifer, Fatfouta Ramzi
Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Management, Potsdam, Germany.
J Pers. 2025 Feb;93(1):136-154. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12901. Epub 2023 Nov 28.
To examine the associations that narcissistic personality traits had with the preference for solitude.
Preference for solitude may be impacted by various characteristics. Narcissism may be one such characteristic given its association with specific motivations for engagement with other individuals (e.g., status attainment).
We examined whether the associations that narcissism had with the preference for solitude were moderated by perceived attainment of status or instability of status.
Across three studies (N = 627/479/675), extraverted narcissism had the expected aversion to solitude. Antagonistic narcissism and neurotic narcissism did not have consistent associations with the preference for solitude across these studies, nor did the perceived attainment of status consistently moderate the links between narcissistic personality features and the preference for solitude. However, perceived instability of status moderated the associations that extraverted narcissism and antagonistic narcissism had with the preference for solitude. More specifically, the more stable status was perceived to be, the greater the aversion to solitude for those high in extraverted narcissism and the greater the preference for solitude for those high in antagonistic narcissism.
This pattern of results suggests that the motivations underlying preferences for solitude differ depending on particular narcissistic traits that predict whether one is more concerned with maintaining, gaining, or losing status. These results build upon what is known about the connections that narcissism has with the preference for solitude.
探讨自恋型人格特质与独处偏好之间的关联。
独处偏好可能受到多种特征的影响。鉴于自恋与与他人交往的特定动机（例如，获得地位）相关联，自恋可能是其中一个特征。
我们研究了自恋与独处偏好之间的关联是否受到感知到的地位获得或地位不稳定的调节。
在三项研究中（N = 627/479/675），外向型自恋者对独处有预期的厌恶。在这些研究中，敌对型自恋和神经质自恋与独处偏好没有一致的关联，感知到的地位获得也没有始终如一地调节自恋型人格特征与独处偏好之间的联系。然而，感知到的地位不稳定调节了外向型自恋和敌对型自恋与独处偏好之间的关联。更具体地说，感知到的地位越稳定，外向型自恋程度高的人对独处的厌恶就越大，敌对型自恋程度高的人对独处的偏好就越大。
这种结果模式表明，独处偏好背后的动机因特定的自恋特质而异，这些特质预测一个人更关注维持、获得还是失去地位。这些结果建立在关于自恋与独处偏好之间联系的已知基础之上。
