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- Title
Shake it off! Adaptive coping with stress reduces national narcissism.
- Authors
Molenda, Zuzanna; Marchlewska, Marta; Rogoza, Marta; Szczepańska, Dagmara
- Abstract
Examining the role of coping with stress strategies in shaping national narcissism, we proposed that this type of defensive national commitment (stemming from psychological shortcomings) should be lowered by adaptive coping strategies. In Study 1 (longitudinal, N = 603), we found that higher adaptive (i.e. self‐sufficient) coping attenuated national narcissism. In Study 2 (experimental, N = 337), the priming of adaptive coping significantly decreased national narcissism. We also demonstrated the indirect effects of the induced adaptive coping strategy on conspiracy beliefs via national narcissism. These findings suggest that using adaptive coping strategies (either dispositional or situationally induced) may attenuate national narcissism. We discuss the role of coping with stress in shaping group‐level phenomena.
- Subjects
NARCISSISM; EXPERIMENTAL design; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
British Journal of Social Psychology, 2023, Vol 62, Issue 4, p1856
- ISSN
0144-6665
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bjso.12660