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  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Personality Psychology

Background:

  • Narcissism is a complex personality construct.
  • A longstanding clinical and empirical observation links narcissism to aggression.
  • Understanding this link is crucial due to aggression's significant implications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To meta-analytically explore the association between narcissism and aggression.
  • To investigate this link across three distinct levels of narcissism analysis: global, dual-dimension, and trifurcated.
  • To examine the relationship between specific narcissism facets and different aggression indices.

Main Methods:

  • A preregistered meta-analysis of 118 studies (k=118).
  • Examined associations between global narcissism, dual-dimension narcissism, and trifurcated narcissism.
  • Investigated relationships with general, proactive, and reactive aggression.

Main Results:

  • Global narcissism demonstrated a moderate positive association with aggression.
  • Vulnerable narcissism strongly and positively correlated with reactive and general aggression.
  • At the trifurcated level, interpersonal antagonism positively predicted all aggression indices, agentic extraversion negatively predicted all indices, and narcissistic neuroticism positively predicted general and reactive aggression.

Conclusions:

  • Studying narcissism at a finer-grained level is essential for understanding psychological processes.
  • Specific facets of narcissism have differential associations with various forms of aggression.
  • These findings underscore the importance of nuanced personality assessment for predicting behavior.