Avoidance coping explains the link between narcissism and counternormative tendencies.

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12816

Wojciech Podsiadłowski,Marta Marchlewska,Marta Rogoza,Zuzanna Molenda,Aleksandra Cichocka

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Previous research linked counternormative tendencies (e.g., conspiracy beliefs, cyberbullying, and catfishing) to narcissism-a personality trait characterized by difficulties in experiencing psychological threats. We argue that avoidance coping with stress favours attitudes and behaviours that allow for deflecting from stressful events and releasing one's stress at the expense of others. Thus, we hypothesized that avoidance coping might explain why narcissism favours counternormative tendencies. We conducted four studies (total N = 2643) in the United States and Poland to examine avoidance coping as a mediator of the relationship between narcissism and counternormative tendencies: conspiracy beliefs (Studies 1-4), willingness to conspire (Studies 2-4), cyberbullying (Studies 3-4) and catfishing (Study 4). All studies found a consistent positive indirect relationship between various forms of narcissism and counternormative tendencies via avoidance coping. These findings suggest that counternormative tendencies might reflect using maladaptive coping strategies.

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回避应对法解释了自恋与反传统倾向之间的联系。

以往的研究将反传统倾向（如阴谋论、网络欺凌和猫扑）与自恋（一种以难以体验心理威胁为特征的人格特质）联系起来。我们认为，对压力的回避式应对倾向于以牺牲他人利益为代价来转移压力事件和释放自身压力的态度和行为。因此，我们假设，回避应对可以解释为什么自恋倾向于反传统倾向。我们在美国和波兰进行了四项研究（总人数 = 2643 人），以考察回避应对作为自恋与反传统倾向之间关系的中介的作用：阴谋信念（研究 1-4）、阴谋意愿（研究 2-4）、网络欺凌（研究 3-4）和捕猫（研究 4）。所有研究都发现，各种形式的自恋与通过逃避应对的反传统倾向之间存在一致的正向间接关系。这些研究结果表明，反传统倾向可能反映了使用适应不良的应对策略。

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