Communal Narcissism

* Article: Communal Narcissism. Jochen E. Gebauer, Constantine Sedikides, et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. American Psychological Association 2012, Vol. 103, No. 5, 854–878

URL = https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~crsi/Gebauer_Sedikides_Verplanken_%20Maio_2012_JPSP.pdf?

Abstract

“An agency-communion model of narcissism distinguishes between agentic narcissists (individuals satisfying self-motives of grandiosity, esteem, entitlement, and power in agentic domains) and communal narcissists (individuals satisfying the same self-motives in communal domains). Five studies supported the model.

In Study 1, participants listed their grandiose self-thoughts. Two distinct types emerged: agentic (“I am the most intelligent person”) and communal (“I am the most helpful person”).

In Study 2, we relied on the listed communal grandiose self-thoughts to construct the Communal Narcissism Inventory. It was psychometrically sound, stable over time, and largely independent of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory—the standard measure of agentic narcissism.

In Studies 3 and 4, agentic and communal narcissists shared the same self-motives, while crucially differing in their means for need satisfaction: Agentic narcissists capitalized on agentic means, communal narcissists on communal means.

Study 5 revisited the puzzle of low self–other agreement regarding communal traits and behaviors.”