Abstract. Narcissism, especially the vulnerable kind, is associated with anger and hostility. In a sample of outpatients, group psychotherapy ( N = 74) and community members ( N = 153), we replicated and extended previous work linking vulnerable, but not grandiose, narcissism to hostile attributions across different socio-relational contexts. We also examined if the level of ambiguity of social situations, assessed from the other-referent position, influences the relationship between vulnerable narcissism and attributing hostile intentionality, and whether narcissistic individuals distinguish hostile interpretations, depending on the level of ambiguity of the scene. In ambiguous vignettes, assessed from the self-referent position, higher levels of vulnerable narcissism were associated with a greater tendency to infer more attributions of hostile intentions with people with whom there was no close relationship (except for authority in the patient group). In the case of visual scenes, the positive relationship between vulnerable narcissism and attributed hostile intentionality appeared in accidental scenes, but not in hostile and ambiguous ones. In addition, the higher the vulnerable narcissism the lower the ability to differentiate between contextual nuances (e.g., the level of ambiguity). We replicated previous research indicating a relationship between vulnerable narcissism and hostile attribution bias, but shed new light on the phenomenon of this bias in that it appears to depend on the socio-relational context and the level of ambiguity of the situation.

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弱势自恋者的敌对归因偏见取决于社会关系背景

摘要。自恋，尤其是脆弱的自恋，与愤怒和敌意有关。在门诊患者、团体心理治疗 (N = 74) 和社区成员 (N = 153) 的样本中，我们复制并扩展了以前的工作，将脆弱但不浮夸的自恋与不同社会关系背景下的敌对归因联系起来。我们还检查了从其他参照位置评估的社会情境的模糊程度是否会影响脆弱的自恋与归因敌对意图之间的关系，以及自恋个体是否根据场景的模糊程度区分敌对解释。在模棱两可的小插曲中，从自我参照的位置评估，更高程度的脆弱自恋与更倾向于推断出更多与没有密切关系的人（患者组中的权威除外）的敌对意图有关。在视觉场景中，脆弱的自恋与归因的敌对意向之间的正相关关系出现在偶然的场景中，而不是在敌意和模棱两可的场景中。此外，脆弱的自恋程度越高，区分上下文细微差别的能力就越低（例如，歧义程度）。我们重复了先前的研究，表明脆弱的自恋与敌对归因偏见之间存在关系，但对这种偏见的现象有了新的认识，因为它似乎取决于社会关系背景和情况的模糊程度。