Does high self-esteem foster narcissism? Testing the bidirectional relationships between self-esteem, narcissistic admiration and rivalry

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Cichocka, Aleksandra Cislak, Aleksandra Stronge, Samantha Osborne, Danny Sibley, Chris G.
Copyright Year	2019
Abstract	Abstract We examined the longitudinal associations between self-esteem and narcissism in a three-wave panel study (N = 557). In a standard cross-lagged panel model, self-esteem had a positive bidirectional relationship with narcissistic admiration. Narcissistic rivalry predicted increases in narcissistic admiration, but the corresponding reciprocal cross-lagged effect was not significant, nor were the cross-lagged associations between self-esteem and narcissistic rivalry. However, a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model (which partitions between- and within-person variance) failed to identify significant cross-lagged relationships between self-esteem and admiration or rivalry. Rather, self-esteem correlated positively with narcissistic admiration (but not rivalry) only at the trait level. Furthermore, we observed positive bidirectional associations between admiration and rivalry, suggesting that the within-person fluctuations in these two sub-dimensions of narcissism mutually reinforce each other.
Starting Page	103882
Ending Page	103882
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DOI	10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103882
Volume Number	83
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103882
Language	English
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