Narcissistic individuals tend to brag about their exploits, but it's not because their self-esteem is inflated, new research suggests.
Narcissists often rub their friends and family the wrong way by bragging about their exploits, seemingly a symptom of an overinflated sense of self-esteem.
"What they really care about is navigating status hierarchies," Zeigler-Hill told Live Science."They care about being better than other people, they care about other people respecting and admiring them, they care about the benefits you get from being high status." To test this idea, Zeigler-Hill and his study co-author Jennifer Vonk, a cognitive psychologist at Oakland University, recruited undergraduate psychology students to take surveys on their levels of narcissistic traits. These standardized surveys ask respondents to rate their agreement or disagreement with statements like,"I will someday be famous," and"I want my rivals to fail." The prevalence of narcissistic personality disorder in the U.S.
On the other hand, people high in"narcissistic rivalry" see the world as a zero-sum game and experience a lot of envy and jealousy if other people get respect or admiration, because they think that praise detracts from their own status. They tend to be harder to get along with. And the research found that people high in narcissistic rivalry actually have low self-esteem.
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