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.

摘要

夸大自恋的自恋钦佩和竞争概念 (NARC) 模型假设，追求独特性、夸大幻想和迷人定义自恋钦佩，而追求至高无上、贬低和攻击性定义自恋竞争。鉴于这些复杂的相互关系，我们使用自恋钦佩和竞争问卷 (NARQ) 和自恋人格量表 (NPI) 通过网络分析在四个单独的样本中探索了自恋的结构，这使我们能够评估这些网络在这些样本中复制的程度样本（总N= 3,868)。总体而言，来自 NARQ 的宏大认知成为每个网络中的一个高度中心节点，为其可复制性和普遍性提供了复合证据，作为 NARC 模型中宏大自恋的一个重要特征。NARQ 的魅力在样本 1、2 和 3 中成为中心节点，与自恋钦佩和自恋竞争的特征（例如，宏大的幻想和攻击性）有很强的联系，但在样本 4 中并不那么重要。据我们所知，这是第一项研究夸大自恋网络结构在各种样本中的可复制性。这些发现增加了关于心理网络科学可复制性的日益重要的对话。