Do communal narcissists care about intelligence? Associations with high self-assessed and low objective intelligence. (June 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Leniarska, Maria; Zajenkowski, Marcin; Rogoza, Radosław; Fatfouta, Ramzi
• Is Part Of: Personality and individual differences. Volume 207(2023)
• Publication Date: 2023-06
• Subjects: Agency -- Agentic narcissism -- Communal narcissism -- Intelligence -- Narcissism; Personality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Personality Development -- Periodicals; Personnalité -- Périodiques; Individualité -- Périodiques; 155.205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2023.112153
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0191-8869

Abstract

Abstract: Communal narcissism reflects the tendency to self-enhance in the communal domain. However, research indicates that the underlying self-motives in communal narcissism (e.g., the maintenance of grandiose self-views) are not uniquely communal, but also agentic. We investigated the relationship between facets of grandiose narcissism (i.e., agentic and communal narcissism) and an inherently agentic attribute – intelligence. Using two independent samples ( N 1 = 211, N 2 = 311), we found communal and agentic narcissisms were positively related to subjective (i.e., self-assessed) intelligence. However, whereas agentic narcissism was unrelated to objective intelligence, communal narcissism was negatively related to it. Finally, communal and agentic narcissism predicted overestimation of objective intelligence.