Status befeuert den Narzissmus und Narzissmus befeuert das Streben nach Status. Die Forschung liefert Hinweise auf eine Einbahnstraße zwischen egozentrischen Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen und dem Streben nach sozialer Stellung. Das Erklimmen der sozialen Leiter und der Besitz eines aufgeblähten Egos verstärken sich im Laufe der Zeit gegenseitig.
Status fuels narcissism and narcissism fuels the chase for status, new psychology research suggests
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-A recent study published in the Journal of Personality suggests that certain types of narcissism can drive a person to seek social status, while achieving that status might fuel their narcissism in return. The research provides evidence of a two-way street between self-centered personality traits and the pursuit of social standing. These [findings](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.70081) suggest that climbing the social ladder and possessing an inflated ego tend to reinforce each other over time.
Narcissism is a personality trait characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance, a deep need for excessive attention, and a lack of empathy for others. Psychologists generally divide narcissism into two main categories known as grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. Grandiose narcissism involves extraversion, arrogance, and a tendency to boldly self-promote. Vulnerable narcissism is characterized by deep insecurity, defensiveness, and a tendency to withdraw socially when feeling threatened.
Within these broad categories, there are specific behavioral styles that psychologists track. Agentic narcissism is a uniquely grandiose trait that involves seeking acclaim and asserting dominance over others. Antagonistic narcissism is shared by both grandiose and vulnerable types, and it involves intense entitlement and a willingness to exploit people. Neurotic narcissism is uniquely vulnerable and is tied to emotional hypersensitivity and an intense fear of failure.
Researchers Christian Jordan and Nikhila Mahadevan designed their study to understand the exact sequence of events connecting these personality traits to social motives. The authors wanted to know if highly narcissistic people are naturally driven to seek status, or if gaining status tends to make people more narcissistic.
For a two-way street it sure looks a lot like a feedback loop.
Social status means you have to care about what other people think. If you can free yourself of that, then you are rich. Living YOUR through the eyes of others, is it horrible way to live.
In my 30+ years across multiple sectors and countries, I have worked with so many of these personality types. They seem to dominate senior leadership positions causing toxic workplace outcomes
Well… that explains how management works in our current system well, doesn’t it?
And politics.
I guess we should let the sickest amongst us lead. It’s going well. Just look at the long term future of the world!
There’s a saying in Polish that my grandma taught me, it translates roughly to:
“it’s very easy to grow accustomed to golden shoes”
If you have nothing – you have nothing that can be taken away from you. The moment you acquire prized possessions/influence your mind shifts to guarding it. Buddhists have figured this out a long time ago
Comparison is the thief of joy…
The funny thing about the “social ladder” is that you only see most of the people like 5 times a year for 2-5 hours. Those people get to see maybe 5% of real personalities. It’s why horrible people tend to do very well. The can pretend to be a human for 10 hours a week and be true monsters when they don’t have to look people in the eye.
There is ego driven social status seeking and there is narcissism which is mostly a fake ego projection and validation extraction seeking. Although they do seem to overlap, I see some possible distinctions here.