The Evil Queen's Dilemma: Linking Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry to Benign and Malicious Envy
The Evil Queen's Dilemma: Linking Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry to Benign and Malicious Envy
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10.1002/per.2047
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发表时间：
2016-03-01
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5.9
通讯作者：
Hagemeyer, Birk
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作者：
Lange, Jens;Crusius, Jan;Hagemeyer, Birk
人们普遍认为自恋者都很嫉妒。然而，支持这一说法的证据仍然难以捉摸。在五项研究中（N= 1225），我们解开了浮夸型自恋如何预测不同的嫉妒倾向。自恋的特定方面和嫉妒的形式具有相同的潜在动机取向（研究1），并通过情感评价的差异（研究4）彼此之间具有明显的相关性（研究1至5）。此外，嫉妒与自恋不同方面的对立社会后果有关（研究5）。具体来说，成功的希望与自恋崇拜有关，预示着良性嫉妒，这需要提高表现的动机，转化为自我和他人对社会效力的归属。相比之下，对失败的恐惧与自恋竞争有关，预示着恶意嫉妒，这导致敌意，转化为他人对社会冲突倾向的归咎于。这些结果与嫉妒作为一种特质（研究1和5）或回忆任务中的状态（研究2和4）以及对情境中向上标准的反应（研究3）相一致。这些发现为自恋者的情感复杂性提供了重要的见解，整合了之前孤立和相互矛盾的证据，并为自恋和嫉妒的研究开辟了新的途径。版权所有(c) 2016欧洲人格心理学协会
It is widely assumed that narcissists are envious. Nevertheless, evidence supporting this claim has remained elusive. In five studies (N=1,225), we disentangle how grandiose narcissism predicts divergent envious inclinations. Specific facets of narcissism and forms of envy shared the same underlying motivational orientations (Study 1) and distinctively related to each other (Studies 1 to 5) via differences in emotional appraisal (Study 4). Moreover, envy was linked to opposing social consequences of different narcissism facets (Study 5). Specifically, hope for success related to narcissistic admiration, predicting benign envy, which entails the motivation to improve performance, translating into the ascription of social potency by the self and others. In contrast, fear of failure related to narcissistic rivalry, predicting malicious envy, which entails hostility, translating into the ascription of a proneness for social conflict by others. These results converged with envy measured as a trait (Studies 1 and 5) or state in recall tasks (Studies 2 and 4) and as response to an upward standard in the situation (Study 3). The findings provide important insights into narcissists' emotional complexities, integrate prior isolated and conflicting evidence, and open up new avenues for research on narcissism and envy. Copyright (c) 2016 European Association of Personality Psychology