Current Issues in Personality Psychology最新文献

{"title":"Connecting the dots between narcissism and fame appeal: the role of imaginary audience fantasies.","authors":"Dara Greenwood, Qiana Archer, Sydney Ash, Julian Keenan","doi":"10.5114/cipp/197263","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/197263","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although prior research has found a significant association between narcissistic tendencies and fame interest, details regarding the particular nature of this relationship remain to be elucidated. The present online survey study (<i>N</i> = 355) replicates and extends prior research examining the links between two subtypes of narcissism and fame appeal. Specifically, we distinguish between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, as predictors of Visibility, Status, and Prosocial domains of fame appeal. Further, we examine the potential mediating role of imaginary audience fantasies.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Participants were drawn from a student sample (74% female-identifying) aged 18 to 25 who completed an online survey for course credit.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism predicted the Visibility appeal of fame, but only vulnerable narcissism predicted the Status appeal of fame. An inverse relationship emerged between grandiose narcissism and Prosocial appeal. Importantly, the frequency of imaginary audience fantasies mediated between both forms of narcissism and the Visibility and Prosocial appeals of fame.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>For those with grandiose or vulnerable narcissistic tendencies, whose self-image incorporates fantasies of being noticed and admired, celebrity and fame may be particularly appealing.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 3","pages":"202-210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12427004/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The dark core and honesty-humility: (nearly) perfectly correlated yet distinct constructs. A proof by comparing their relations with self-reported revengefulness.","authors":"Franciszek Stefanek, Maria Flakus, Lidia Baran, Christopher M Kowalski, Radosław Rogoza","doi":"10.5114/cipp/197264","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/197264","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The traits constituting the Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) are expected to share a common dark core (i.e., antisocial attitudes towards others). However, there is an ongoing debate about whether the dark core is an independent construct or whether it falls within broader categories of personality (i.e., low honesty-humility). Previous research has been sceptical regarding the Dark Triad's incremental value as it is seen as redundant and adding little to traditional personality models. Thus, the current study aimed to assess the overlap and distinctiveness of the latent Dark Triad from honesty/humility.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The sample consisted of 677 participants aged 18 to 55 years old - 551 women (<i>M</i> _age = 22.57, <i>SD</i> _age = 4.31), 111 men (<i>M</i> _age = 23.66, <i>SD</i> _age = 5.32), and 15 non-binary people (<i>M</i> _age = 24.67, <i>SD</i> _age = 3.42). Participants were recruited using social media and completed questionnaires anonymously through the LimeSurvey online platform.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We replicated existing findings regarding the nearly perfect latent relationship between the dark core and honesty-humility using a broader array of measures of the Dark Triad traits. We also provided some evidence that the dark core and honesty-humility, despite being highly related, differ in terms of construct validity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings suggest that claims positing complete convergence between these two constructs might be premature. However, future research examining different types of validity is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 2","pages":"109-117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12163586/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144303124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Openness to experience and innovative work behavior: workplace politics harms the innovativeness of those low on openness.","authors":"Eleni M Stergiopoulou, James A Meurs","doi":"10.5114/cipp/197258","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/197258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Work innovation is essential to both employee and organizational success in today's highly competitive work environment. Although scholars have found personality (e.g., openness to experience) to relate to innovative work behavior, only some research has examined how context might influence personality's effects, and very few studies have examined work environments (e.g., workplace politics) that could be detrimental to innovative behavior.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Taking a trait activation approach, across two time points, we examined how openness affects the perceptions of organizational politics (POP)-innovative work behavior relationship using a sample of employees and supervisors working in a variety of finance sectors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results revealed that innovative work behaviors, as rated by managers both concurrently and six months later, decrease for employees low on openness under conditions of elevated POP, but are not reduced for those high on openness under high POP. Thus, the (only) employees whose innovative behavior was negatively affected were those who were otherwise least prone to engage in work innovation (i.e., those low on openness), indicating the harmful effect of workplace politics on this valuable work behavior.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that scholars should develop a more nuanced understanding of openness's long-established relationship with innovation at work, paying particular attention to the context of their openness studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 3","pages":"158-166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12427001/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who tends to perceive other people as useful objects? The relationship between the general tendency to objectify other people and basic and dark personality traits.","authors":"Kinga Lachowicz-Tabaczek, Beata E Andrzejewska, Anna Juszkiewicz, Jolanta Babiak","doi":"10.5114/cipp/195599","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/195599","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Objectification involves perceiving and instrumentally treating other people as mere tools useful for satisfying the perceiver's goals. While several situational factors facilitating objectification have been identified, only a few studies have examined personal predictors of objectification. To find out more about personality correlates of the objectifying approach towards other people, we examined its relationship with basic and dark personality traits.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The sample comprised 372 participants (222 women), ranging in age from 18 to 55 years (<i>M</i> = 34.14, <i>SD</i> = 8.48). To measure study variables, we used a modified version of the Objectification Scale (objectification), the IPIP-BFM-20 (Big Five personality dimensions), DTDD-P (dark personality traits of Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy), HSNS (vulnerable narcissism), PES (psychological entitlement), IES (interpersonal exploitativeness), PRNS (positive reciprocity norms), and NRNS (negative reciprocity norms).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found that, when controlling for other personality variables and demographics, agreeableness, intellect, and a tendency to use positive norms of reciprocity negatively predicted objectification, and exploitativeness and entitlement were positively associated with the general tendency to objectify others.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings suggest that a propensity for objectification is predicted by an unwillingness to maintain positive relationships with others, lower intellectual openness, higher entitlement and exploitativeness, and low tendency to positively respond to others' favors. The associations with these personality traits may allow for better understanding of - typical for objectification - high focus on fulfilling one's own interests and readiness to exploit others while disregarding their interests and ignoring human attributes such as subjectivity and uniqueness.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 2","pages":"118-126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12163582/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144303127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Empathy types in medical and pedagogical professions.","authors":"Christoph M Paulus, Saskia Meinken","doi":"10.5114/cipp/195314","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/195314","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The aim of the study was to find out whether certain types of empathy are over- or underrepresented in medical and educational professions. We used the following four types of empathy profiles: \"Situation-dependent altruists\" (A) have high affective and cognitive empathy aspects with high personal distress. \"High-functioning empaths\" (B) differ from pattern A by the low distress. People who have neither clear affective nor cognitive empathy traits, but are characterized by high distress, are \"low neurotic empaths\" (C). Types whose mean scores on all three aspects were below the mean are referred to as \"low empaths\" (D).</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The sample consisted of 439 subjects. The group of medical professionals included doctors, nursing staff, and other medical staff. The group of educators included teachers, social pedagogues, educators, social workers and special needs teachers. We used the German version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) to measure empathy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The two occupational groups differed from each other non-significantly in their respective distribution. In the nursing staff sample, profile B is clearly overrepresented and profile C is clearly underrepresented. Nursing staff therefore have a high level of emotional concern and perspective taking together with lower distress. Nurses and pedagogical staff occur in our sample most frequently in the empathic pattern A and B.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The typologization of empathy skills proved to be a good method of describing affective and cognitive aspects of empathy within a personality. In addition, the results emphasize the importance of empathy training, which is well established in medical education but virtually non-existent in pedagogical education.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 3","pages":"149-157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12427003/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do parental rearing behaviors relate to hostile attributions manifested by adolescents? The mediating role of narcissistic vulnerability.","authors":"Marta Bodecka-Zych, Iwona Nowakowska, Karolina Sarzyńska, Alicja Kuczyńska","doi":"10.5114/cipp/195697","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/195697","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Hostile attributions of intent are linked to externalizing and internalizing problems in children and adolescents. Maladaptive parenting practices are believed to contribute to developing a hostile attributional style. However, there is limited empirical research on this topic. Similarly, research on narcissism often considers the impact of parent-child experiences, but there is a research gap concerning parenting behaviors and facets of narcissism development.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>To address these gaps, we conducted a study with 268 teenagers (134 females) aged between 12 and 17 years. Our main goal was to investigate whether maladaptive parenting practices and two facets of vulnerable narcissism are associated with hostile attributions in adolescents. Additionally, based on previous literature, we tested whether narcissistic vulnerability and antagonism mediate the relationship between parental rearing behaviors and hostile attributions in teenagers.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our results revealed positive associations among all variables of interest. Importantly, we found that narcissistic vulnerability, but not antagonism, played a significant mediating role between maladaptive parenting practices and adolescents' hostile attributional style.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>By shedding light on the mechanisms behind developing a hostile attributional style, our study contributes to a better understanding of this issue and offers practical implications. Specifically, recognizing the importance of narcissistic vulnerability can benefit professionals working with adolescents who tend to make hostile attributions.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 2","pages":"98-108"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12163583/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144303121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validation of the Polish Self and Interpersonal Functioning Scale (SIFS-PL) in community and clinical samples.","authors":"Emilia Soroko, Jan Cieciuch, Dominick Gamache","doi":"10.5114/cipp/194231","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/194231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Self and Interpersonal Functioning Scale (SIFS-PL). The scale is designed to assess Criterion A of the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) - the four core elements of personality pathology (Identity, Self-direction, Empathy, and Intimacy) from the Level of Personality Functioning (LPF) for personality disorders (PDs).</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Adult participants from 6 community and clinical samples (total <i>N</i> = 394; 83.2% female; age: <i>M</i> = 30.9, <i>SD</i> = 9.6) completed the SIFS-PL. A clinical subsample of 50 patients diagnosed with personality disorders additionally completed the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID5).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Confirmatory factor analysis supported a bifactor four-factor model. All items had significant loadings on both the four specific elements and an overarching general personality pathology factor. The internal consistency ranged from acceptable to good for subscales and excellent for the global scale. In terms of criterion validity, results from the clinical subgroup were consistent with previous research on the SIFS. The SIFS-PL scales effectively discriminated between community sample participants and those suffering from depression, as well as an ambulatory clinical group with personality disorders.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings underscore the robust psychometric properties of the Polish version of the SIFS, rendering it a promising tool for both screening and extensive research on personality disorders within contemporary dimensional models such as the AMPD and ICD-11. Its application in clinical settings can also be advocated. However, general scores and subscale scores might serve distinct purposes, warranting further investigation into their predictive validity.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 2","pages":"138-147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12163587/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144303126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sleep disturbances partly mediate the association between chronotype and depressive symptoms in adult video game players.","authors":"Marta Jackowska, Robert Krzyżanowski, Romana Kadzikowska-Wrzosek","doi":"10.5114/cipp/193607","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/193607","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Playing video games is a popular leisure activity, but if prolonged it can increase the risk of sleep and mood disturbances. Individuals with an evening chronotype show a greater tendency to be engrossed in video games.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>This study tested whether sleep disturbances would mediate the association between chronotype and depressive symptoms in adult video game players. Participants were 1208 adults (86.7% men, mean age 27.4 ± 8.07 years) who regularly play video games. Chronotype was assessed with the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire, the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale was used to measure depressive symptoms, and sleep disturbance was evaluated with the Athens Insomnia Scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found that adults who play video games and show an evening chronotype preference spent more time playing than those with a more intermediate or morning preference. An evening chronotype was linked to a higher level of depressive symptoms, and our bootstrap mediation analysis revealed that sleep disturbances partly mediated this association (β = -.15, <i>SE</i> = .02, 95% CI [-.19; -.11]).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study suggests that an evening chronotype should be considered when exploring psychological risk factors contributing to the development of problematic gaming. In adults who play video games and display a tendency towards eveningness, higher rates of depressive symptoms may be partly explained by inadequate sleep.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 3","pages":"167-175"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12427006/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emotion regulation strategies and satisfaction with life: mediating roles of positive and negative mind-wandering.","authors":"Magdalena Klonowska, Marek Kowalczyk","doi":"10.5114/cipp/193209","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/193209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Habitual use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression as emotion regulation strategies has been shown to relate differently to dispositional positive and negative affect and satisfaction with life. In this study, we aimed to establish the role of affectively different forms of mind-wandering - i.e., spontaneously initiated thinking about matters unrelated to the individual's current task and the immediate environment - in the associations between the employment of each of these strategies and life satisfaction. Our main theoretical idea was that affective consequences of employing cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression influence positive and negative mind-wandering, which contribute to satisfaction with life.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>A convenient sample of 217 respondents (154 women) aged 19-88 (<i>M</i> = 44.97, <i>SD</i> = 17.16) filled out questionnaires assessing variables of interest: the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule-Trait, the Task-Unrelated Thoughts Questionnaire, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the estimated PLS-SEM structural model, there were significant indirect paths leading from emotion regulation strategies to satisfaction with life through 1) positive or negative affect and positive or negative mind-wandering as sequential mediators, 2) positive affect (over and above its associations with positive and negative mind-wandering), 3) positive and negative mind-wandering (due to their negative associations with suppression).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Positive and negative mind-wandering may mediate the relationships between the frequency with which individuals employ cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression to regulate emotions and their global life satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 3","pages":"176-184"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12427005/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cognitive performance and stress states in vulnerable and grandiose narcissism.","authors":"Oliwia M Maciantowicz, Joanna Witowska, Marcin Zajenkowski","doi":"10.5114/cipp/192937","DOIUrl":"10.5114/cipp/192937","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>We examined the associations between grandiose narcissism (GN), vulnerable narcissism (VN), cognitive inhibition, and task-related state responses.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Participants (<i>N</i> = 154; age: <i>M</i> = 23.60, <i>SD</i> = 3.71) completed measures of narcissism, performed a cognitive inhibition task (the antisaccade task), and reported stress states (distress, worry and engagement) before and after the task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results revealed that VN was negatively linked to cognitive inhibition. Furthermore, VN predicted higher levels of distress and lower levels of engagement during the task, whereas GN predicted higher engagement and lower distress.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings demonstrate a negative impact of VN on cognitive performance and stress responses during task performance. Understanding these dynamics enhances our knowledge of how narcissism may influence cognitive functioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 3","pages":"211-215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12427002/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}