TY - JOUR
T1 - Moral grandstanding, narcissism, and self-reported responses to the COVID-19 crisis
AU - Grubbs, Joshua B.
AU - James, A. Shanti
AU - Warmke, Brandon
AU - Tosi, Justin
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledging the support of the Charles Koch Foundation , the National Institute for Civil Discourse, and Bowling Green State University in funding data collection efforts central to this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - The present study aimed to understand how status-oriented individual differences such as narcissistic antagonism, narcissistic extraversion, and moral grandstanding motivations may have longitudinally predicted both behavioral and social media responses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Via YouGov, a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults was recruited in August of 2019 (N = 2,519; Mage = 47.5, SD = 17.8; 51.4% women) and resampled in May of 2020, (N = 1,533). Results indicated that baseline levels of narcissistic antagonism were associated with lower levels of social distancing and lower compliance with public health recommended behaviors. Similarly, dominance oriented moral grandstanding motivations predicted greater conflict with others over COVID-19, greater engagement in status-oriented social media behaviors about COVID-19, and lower levels of social distancing.
AB - The present study aimed to understand how status-oriented individual differences such as narcissistic antagonism, narcissistic extraversion, and moral grandstanding motivations may have longitudinally predicted both behavioral and social media responses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Via YouGov, a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults was recruited in August of 2019 (N = 2,519; Mage = 47.5, SD = 17.8; 51.4% women) and resampled in May of 2020, (N = 1,533). Results indicated that baseline levels of narcissistic antagonism were associated with lower levels of social distancing and lower compliance with public health recommended behaviors. Similarly, dominance oriented moral grandstanding motivations predicted greater conflict with others over COVID-19, greater engagement in status-oriented social media behaviors about COVID-19, and lower levels of social distancing.
KW - Antisocial behavior
KW - Entitlement
KW - Status seeking
KW - Virtue signaling
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104187
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104187
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122630401
VL - 97
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
SN - 0092-6566
M1 - 104187
ER -