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Community Feeling and Narcissism as Two Opposite Phenomena

Authors :
Włodzimierz Strus
Alina Kałużna-Wielobób
Jan Cieciuch
University of Zurich
Kałużna-Wielobób, Alina
Source :
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 11 (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

The objective of the current study was to examine the relations between narcissism and Adler's community feeling. Based on theoretical considerations, we claim that community feeling can be treated as an opposite pole of narcissism and we expected that: (1) both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism would be negatively related to community feeling and that (2) grandiose and vulnerable narcissism would be positively related to anti-community domination and isolation. A sample of 520 university students (Mage = 21.37, SDage = 4.31) completed the Community Feeling Questionnaire (CFQ), the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ) and the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale (HSNS). Structural equation modeling largely confirmed our expectations. These results suggest that narcissism can be understood in terms of a deficit in community feeling. It turned out that community feeling and narcissism are related constructs but they are not reducible to each other.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 11 (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....c64f23f1eb8e1743a53ac41f1e24d1b1
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-194257