Maglić Marina, Pavlović Tomislav, Franc Renata
Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Croatia.
Int Rev Soc Psychol. 2024 Feb 12;37:2. doi: 10.5334/irsp.844. eCollection 2024.
Considering current world politics, investigating people's tendency to believe in the greatness of their nation contingent on external validation seems ever so relevant. Thus, we examined the relationship between the direction and extremity of political orientation and national narcissism (NN) on European quota-representative samples ( = 15,882). Although the relationships between ideological extremity and NN were established, they were much weaker than the positive relationship between political orientation and NN. Testing for model invariance across Western and Eastern European samples suggested differences in the predictive strength of political orientation on NN, with a weaker association in Eastern Europe. Further analyses, including a quadratic examination of political ideology's relation to NN, supported the rigidity-of-the-right hypothesis, highlighting the stronger presence of NN among right-leaning individuals. This pattern persisted despite varying European socio-cultural backgrounds, suggesting a transcultural aspect of NN within the political right spectrum. Our research underscores the importance of considering socio-political context when assessing the interplay between political ideology and NN, setting a starting point for further, more nuanced research.
考虑到当前的世界政治形势，研究人们在外部认可的情况下相信自己国家伟大的倾向显得尤为重要。因此，我们在欧洲配额代表性样本（N = 15,882）中考察了政治取向的方向和极端程度与国家自恋（NN）之间的关系。虽然意识形态极端程度与国家自恋之间的关系已得到证实，但它们远不如政治取向与国家自恋之间的正向关系那么强。对西欧和东欧样本进行模型不变性检验表明，政治取向对国家自恋的预测强度存在差异，东欧的关联较弱。进一步的分析，包括对政治意识形态与国家自恋关系的二次检验，支持了右翼刚性假设，突出了国家自恋在右翼倾向个体中更明显的存在。尽管欧洲社会文化背景各异，但这种模式依然存在，表明国家自恋在政治右翼范围内具有跨文化的特征。我们的研究强调了在评估政治意识形态与国家自恋之间的相互作用时考虑社会政治背景的重要性，为进一步更细致的研究奠定了基础。
