ArticleCurrent issues in personality psychology2026
I am so wise: agentic narcissism, communal narcissism, and overclaiming among Polish and Italian students.
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backgroundSelf-enhancement is the tendency to maintain a positive self-concept, often linked to narcissism. While agentic narcissists enhance their self-image through competence and status, communal narcissists do so through perceived morality and altruism. This study examined the relationship between four forms of grandiose narcissism - admiration, rivalry, sanctity, and heroism - and two self-enhancement strategies: overclaiming and the better-than-average (BTA) effect. PARTICIPANTS AND PROCEDURE: We investigated these relations in Polish and Italian university students (
resultsInitially, we examined the zero-order correlations between narcissistic dimensions and self-enhancement variables, including domain-specific (agentic and communal) overclaiming, actual knowledge, and the BTA effect. To account for the substantial intercorrelations among narcissism subtypes, we subsequently employed multiple regression models to isolate their unique contributions.
conclusionsOur findings revealed that within agentic narcissism only admiration was positively related to self-enhancement, whereas communal narcissists employed both sanctity and heroism. However, in Italy, communal self-enhancement was expressed only in the BTA effect, suggesting that cultural norms may influence the expression of narcissistic self-enhancement. These findings contribute to the literature on domain-specific self-enhancement, emphasizing the interplay between narcissism, culture, and self-perception.
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