Mentor/s
Dr. Adrienne Crowell
Participation Type
Poster
Abstract
The current study was designed to test the effect of selfaffirmation on defensive responses to a hypothetical threat among people high in narcissistic personality traits.
Self-affirmation refers to thinking about and expressing one’s core values in life and has been shown to produce myriad benefits, including reduced stress, increased self-esteem, and decreased defensiveness in response to threats (for a review, see Cohen & Sherman, 2014).
Previous research has found that grandiose narcissism is related to negative emotional responses to achievement threats whereas vulnerable narcissism is related to more negative emotional responses to interpersonal threats (Besser & Priel, 2010).
Hypothesis 1: Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism will be positively related to defensive responding. Hypothesis 2: Self-affirmation will reduce defensiveness in those high in vulnerable narcissism but not those high in grandiose narcissism.
College and Major available
College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology BS
Location
Digital Commons & West Campus West Building University Commons
Start Day/Time
4-26-2024 12:00 PM
End Day/Time
4-26-2024 2:00 PM
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Prize Categories
Most Scholarly Impact or Potential
Investigating the Relationshp Between Self-Affirmation, Defensiveness, and Narcissistic Traits
Digital Commons & West Campus West Building University Commons
The current study was designed to test the effect of selfaffirmation on defensive responses to a hypothetical threat among people high in narcissistic personality traits.
Self-affirmation refers to thinking about and expressing one’s core values in life and has been shown to produce myriad benefits, including reduced stress, increased self-esteem, and decreased defensiveness in response to threats (for a review, see Cohen & Sherman, 2014).
Previous research has found that grandiose narcissism is related to negative emotional responses to achievement threats whereas vulnerable narcissism is related to more negative emotional responses to interpersonal threats (Besser & Priel, 2010).
Hypothesis 1: Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism will be positively related to defensive responding. Hypothesis 2: Self-affirmation will reduce defensiveness in those high in vulnerable narcissism but not those high in grandiose narcissism.
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