Paper Title
The performance of narcissists rises and falls with perceived opportunity for glory.
Keywords
- Narcissism
- Self-Enhancement
- Performance Motivation
- Perceived Opportunity
- Glory Seeking
- Motivational Factors
- Exceptional Performance
- Self-Evaluation
- Admiration Seeking
- Subclinical Narcissism
- Performance Tasks
- Psychological Research
- Motivation-Performance Link
- Performance Moderation
- Future Research
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Publication Info
Volume: 82 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 819–834
Published On
May, 2002
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Abstract
Narcissists consider themselves to be exceptional performers, but past research has found no consistent relationship between narcissism and performance. The present research tested the hypothesis that the relationship between subclinical narcissism and performance is moderated by a motivational factor: perceived self-enhancement opportunity. Four experiments were conducted, each using different manipulations of self-enhancement opportunity and different performance tasks. In each study, narcissists performed better when self-enhancement opportunity was high rather than low. In contrast, the performance of participants with low narcissism was relatively unaffected by self-enhancement opportunity. Other findings suggested that narcissists' self-enhancement motivation stems more from a desire to garner admiration than from a desire to self-evaluate. Implications and directions for future research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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