Theoretical accounts of narcissism emphasize the dynamic shifting of self-states in response to social feedback. Status threats are thought to set narcissism's dynamics in motion. Naturalistic ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies have characterized dynamics of narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability in relation to perceptions of the interpersonal environment. Experimental studies have emphasized the behavioral responses of narcissistic individuals to putative threats to status. Naturalistic and experimental studies suffer from opposing limitations, namely, a potential for confounding variables to impact results versus ambiguous generalizability to real-life and longer time scales, respectively. Integrating naturalistic and experimental studies has the potential to provide a comprehensive model of how dynamics within narcissism unfold in response to status threat. The present study examined shifts in grandiosity and vulnerability in both naturalistic EMA and experimentally controlled (rigged tournament game) social interactions (N = 437). Grandiosity decreased and vulnerability increased in response to both naturalistic and experimental status threats. Further, the same people who responded with decreased grandiosity in response to status threat in daily life responded with similar decreases in grandiosity to experimental defeat. Trait narcissistic agency amplified many of the observed links between narcissism and status threat experimentally and naturalistically. Given that warmth (in addition to dominance) emerged as an important predictor of shifts in narcissism, implications for status-threatening environments are discussed. The present study elucidates important differences with respect to expressions of grandiosity and vulnerability across naturalistic and experimental methods. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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自然主义和实验环境中自恋的浮夸和脆弱的动态。


自恋的理论解释强调自我状态对社会反馈的动态转变。地位威胁被认为会激发自恋的动力。自然主义生态瞬时评估（EMA）研究描述了自恋自大和脆弱性与人际环境感知之间的动态关系。实验研究强调了自恋个体对假定的地位威胁的行为反应。自然主义研究和实验研究都存在相反的局限性，即混杂变量可能会影响结果，而对现实生活和较长时间尺度的普遍适用性则不明确。结合自然主义和实验研究有可能提供一个全面的模型，说明自恋中的动态如何应对地位威胁。本研究考察了自然主义 EMA 和实验控制（操纵锦标赛游戏）社交互动中浮夸性和脆弱性的变化 (N = 437)。为了应对自然主义和实验状态的威胁，浮夸感减少了，脆弱性增加了。此外，那些在日常生活中对地位威胁做出反应而降低自大程度的人，对实验失败的反应也同样减少了自大程度。特质自恋机构通过实验和自然的方式放大了自恋与地位威胁之间许多观察到的联系。鉴于温暖（除了主导地位之外）成为自恋转变的重要预测因素，我们讨论了对威胁地位的环境的影响。 本研究阐明了自然主义方法和实验方法在夸大性和脆弱性表达方面的重要差异。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。