TY - JOUR
T1 - Narcissism and devaluing others
T2 - An exploration of impaired control over drinking as a mediating mechanism of alcohol-related problems
AU - Naidu, E. S.
AU - Patock-Peckham, Julie
AU - Ruof, A.
AU - Bauman, D. C.
AU - Banovich, P.
AU - Frohe, T.
AU - Leeman, R. F.
N1 - Funding Information:
NIH/NIAAA grant KO1AA024160-01A1 to Julie A. Patock-Peckham; Burton Family Foundation's (FP11815) grant to Social Addictions Impulse Lab (SAIL). Both Esha Naidu and Julie A. Patock-Peckham have agreed to share first authorship. All authors participated in the data collection, analysis, writing, or editing of this manuscript.
Funding Information:
NIH/NIAAA grant KO1AA024160-01A1 to Julie A. Patock-Peckham; Burton Family Foundation 's ( FP11815 ) grant to Social Addictions Impulse Lab (SAIL). Both Esha Naidu and Julie A. Patock-Peckham have agreed to share first authorship. All authors participated in the data collection, analysis, writing, or editing of this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Devaluing or diminishing the worth of others is how many individuals destroy their relationships, such as by drinking beyond limits at inappropriate times and letting others down. Impaired control over drinking (IC) reflects consuming alcohol beyond predetermined limits. This investigation sought to determine whether facets of vulnerable narcissism (e.g., entitlement-rage, hiding-the-self, contingent-self-esteem, and devaluing) or narcissistic grandiosity (e.g. grandiose-fantasy, self-sacrificing-for-self-enhancement, and exploitativeness) were directly related to IC and indirectly related to drinking outcomes. We examined a path model of 759 university student drinkers. Our results show that while grandiose-fantasy (i.e., desire for special recognition) was negatively linked to IC, devaluing was positively linked to IC. In addition, men scored higher on exploitativeness (i.e., interpersonally manipulative for personal gain) than women. We conducted mediational analysis with asymmetric confidence intervals and a bias-corrected bootstrap technique. Mediational tests showed that higher levels of grandiose-fantasy were indirectly related to fewer alcohol-related problems through less IC and less heavy-episodic drinking. In contrast, higher levels of devaluing were indirectly related to more alcohol-related problems through more IC and heavy-episodic-drinking. Our results suggest that targeting thought processes in which people with Alcohol Use Disorders (AUDs) are actively devaluing others may be a good target for therapeutic intervention.
AB - Devaluing or diminishing the worth of others is how many individuals destroy their relationships, such as by drinking beyond limits at inappropriate times and letting others down. Impaired control over drinking (IC) reflects consuming alcohol beyond predetermined limits. This investigation sought to determine whether facets of vulnerable narcissism (e.g., entitlement-rage, hiding-the-self, contingent-self-esteem, and devaluing) or narcissistic grandiosity (e.g. grandiose-fantasy, self-sacrificing-for-self-enhancement, and exploitativeness) were directly related to IC and indirectly related to drinking outcomes. We examined a path model of 759 university student drinkers. Our results show that while grandiose-fantasy (i.e., desire for special recognition) was negatively linked to IC, devaluing was positively linked to IC. In addition, men scored higher on exploitativeness (i.e., interpersonally manipulative for personal gain) than women. We conducted mediational analysis with asymmetric confidence intervals and a bias-corrected bootstrap technique. Mediational tests showed that higher levels of grandiose-fantasy were indirectly related to fewer alcohol-related problems through less IC and less heavy-episodic drinking. In contrast, higher levels of devaluing were indirectly related to more alcohol-related problems through more IC and heavy-episodic-drinking. Our results suggest that targeting thought processes in which people with Alcohol Use Disorders (AUDs) are actively devaluing others may be a good target for therapeutic intervention.
KW - Alcohol-related problem
KW - Devaluing
KW - Exploitativeness
KW - Grandiose fantasy
KW - Heavy episodic drinking
KW - Impaired control over drinking
KW - Narcissism
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2018.10.039
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2018.10.039
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85056162678
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 139
SP - 39
EP - 45
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
ER -