Moral grandstanding, narcissism, and self-reported responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Grubbs, J. B., James, A. S., Warmke, B., & Tosi, J. Journal of Research in Personality, 97:104187, 2022.
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The present study aimed to understand how status-oriented individual differences such as narcissistic antagonism, narcissistic extraversion, and moral grandstanding motivations may havelongitudinally 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.
@article{grubbs_moral_2022,
	title = {Moral grandstanding, narcissism, and self-reported responses to the {COVID}-19 crisis},
	volume = {97},
	copyright = {All rights reserved},
	issn = {0092-6566},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656621001240},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104187},
	abstract = {The present study aimed to understand how status-oriented individual differences such as narcissistic antagonism, narcissistic extraversion, and moral grandstanding motivations may havelongitudinally 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.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2022-01-24},
	journal = {Journal of Research in Personality},
	author = {Grubbs, Joshua B. and James, A. Shanti and Warmke, Brandon and Tosi, Justin},
	year = {2022},
	keywords = {antisocial behavior, Antisocial behavior, entitlement, Entitlement, Status seeking, virtue signaling, Virtue signaling},
	pages = {104187},
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