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The anxious addictive narcissist: The relationship between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, anxiety symptoms and Facebook Addiction.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Weapon or Armor? Unpacking the Paradox of Narcissism and Self-Reported Mental Health Through a Three-Level Meta-Analysis.Journal of personality · 2026Pooled it
- I tweet, therefore I am: a systematic review on social media use and disorders of the social brain.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Association between problematic social networking use and anxiety symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Narcissistic Traits and Psychological Distress Among Medical Students: Implications for Mental Health Support in Medical Education.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Attachment, grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, interpersonal competence, and problematic social media use: A latent profile analysis.PloS one · 2026Article
- Cyberpsychopathy: A Multidimensional Framework for Understanding Psychopathic Traits in Digital Environments.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Review
- Unpacking the p-factor. Associations Between Maladaptive Personality Traits and General Psychopathology in Female and Male Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Social Media Use Motives as Mediators of the Link Between Covert Narcissism and Problematic Social Media Use.Alpha psychiatry · 2023Article
- Negative psychological and physiological effects of social networking site use: The example of Facebook.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale 2 in a Polish sample: psychometric validation and relationship with specific Internet-related disorders and psychosocial functioning.Current issues in personality psychology · 2023Article
- Problematic Social Networking Site use-effects on mental health and the brain.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Vulnerable narcissism and grandiose narcissism share the core of the narcissistic self but are considered as separate forms of this personality trait. While previous research mainly focused on the mechanisms that connect grandiose narcissism and addictive use of the social platform Facebook, it remained unclear why individuals with enhanced levels of vulnerable narcissism are at risk to develop Facebook Addiction (FA). The present study investigated the links between vulnerable and grandiose narcissism, anxiety symptoms, and FA. In a sample of 327 Facebook users (age: M(SD) = 23.67(3.96), range: 18-56), both forms of narcissism were positively related to anxiety symptoms and FA. Moreover, the association between both forms of narcissism and FA was partly mediated by anxiety symptoms. Results enter new territory by revealing hidden similarities between vulnerable and grandiose narcissists, emphasizing that similar mechanisms might explain their enhanced risk to develop addictive tendencies of Facebook use. These findings should be considered when assessing individuals at risk for FA and when developing (therapeutic) intervention programs to deal with problematic use of social platforms.
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