Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
Summer 6-28-2021
Publication Title
Self and Identity
Department
Psychology
College/School
College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Abstract
The narcissistic admiration and rivalry concept (NARC) model of grandiose narcissism posits that striving for uniqueness, grandiose fantasies, and charmingness define narcissistic admiration, whereas striving for supremacy, devaluation, and aggressiveness define narcissistic rivalry. Given these complex interrelationships, we explored the structure of grandiose narcissism using the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ) and Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) via network analysis in four separate samples which allowed us to assess the extent to which these networks replicated across these samples (total N = 3,868). Overall, grandiose cognitions from the NARQ emerged as a highly central node in each network, providing compound evidence for its replicability and generalizability as an important feature of grandiose narcissism within the NARC model. Charmingness from the NARQ emerged as a central node throughout Samples 1, 2, and 3, with strong connections to features of narcissistic admiration and narcissistic rivalry (e.g., grandiose fantasies and aggressiveness), but was less central in Sample 4. To our knowledge, this is the first research to examine the replicability of the network structure of grandiose narcissism across various samples. These findings add to an increasingly important dialogue regarding replicability in psychological network science.
Recommended Citation
Jordan, D. G., Winer, E. S., Zeigler-Hill, V., & Marcus, D. K. (2022). A network approach to understanding narcissistic grandiosity via the narcissistic admiration and rivalry questionnaire and the narcissistic personality inventory. Self and Identity, 21(6), 710-737.
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Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Self and Identity on June 28, 2021, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2021.1944298