Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. We propose a self-regulation model of grandiose narcissism. This model illustrates an interconnected set of processes through which narcissists i. The model shows that narcissists select situations that afford status.
Narcissists vigilantly attend to cues related to the status they and others have in these situations and, on the basis of these perceived cues, appraise whether they can elevate their status or reduce the status of others. Narcissists engage in self-promotion admiration pathway or other-derogation rivalry pathway in accordance with these appraisals. Each pathway has unique consequences for how narcissists are perceived by others, thus shaping their social status over time.
The model demonstrates how narcissism manifests itself as a stable and consistent cluster of behaviors in pursuit of social status and how it develops and maintains itself over time. More broadly, the model might offer useful insights for future process models of other personality traits.
Narcissists i. At the same time, narcissists are often combative toward others. What ties together these distinct manifestations of narcissism?
In this article, we propose a framework that addresses both the why and the how of narcissism. Drawing insights from evolutionary and motivational accounts of behavior, we propose that narcissism is rooted in a desire for social status. Drawing from self-regulatory processing models of personality in general and narcissism in particular, we propose that narcissism is manifested in sequences of status-pursuing processes. Combining both perspectives, we propose a process model of narcissism, the status pursuit in narcissism SPIN model.
