Reducing Narcissistic Aggression by Buttressing Self-Esteem: An Experimental Field Study

Reducing narcissistic aggression by buttressing self-esteem: an experimental field study.

Narcissistic individuals are prone to become aggressive when their egos are threatened. We report a randomized field experiment that tested whether a social-psychological intervention designed to lessen the impact of ego threat reduces narcissistic aggression. A sample of 405 young adolescents (mean age = 13.9 years) were randomly assigned to complete either a short self-affirmation writing ass...

Narcissistic Self-Esteem Management

This study examines the relationships among hostility, grandiosity, dominance, narcissism, and self-esteem in samples of 84,57, and 300 Ss. The intercorrelations among various self-report and observer ratings of these constructs suggest that (a) hostility, grandiosity, dominance, and narcissism are substantially intercorrelated and form a coherent system of constructs and (b) the common varianc...

Narcissistic Fragility 1 Running Head: NARCISSISTIC FRAGILITY Implicit Self-Esteem and Narcissism: Rethinking the Link

Self-esteem, academic self-concept, and aggression at school.

The present study explores the relation between academic self-concept, self-esteem, and aggression at school. Longitudinal data from a racially diverse sample of middle-school students were analyzed to explore how academic self-concept influenced the likelihood of aggressing at school and whether high self-concept exerted a different pattern of influence when threatened. Data include self-repor...

Using self-esteem instability to disentangle the connection between self-esteem level and perceived aggression

Recent debate has considered the connection between self-esteem and aggression. The present study attempted to clarify this association by examining the possibility that self-esteem instability moderates the association that self-esteem level has with aggression. Perceived aggression was measured in 234 (34 men and 200 women) undergraduate participants. These participants were then evaluated by...