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As subjective well‐being is foundational to understanding people, researchers have sought to uncover its correlates. Some theorizing proposes that effects of broad personality traits on subjective well‐being constructs are mediated by self‐esteem; unfortunately, evidence pertaining to this idea has been limited to the study of "normal" broad personality traits and limited measures of subjective well‐being. Here, we provided a more comprehensive test of this theory, and we examined the dominance of self‐esteem over normal and pathological broad personality traits in predicting an array of subjective well‐being constructs. In a primarily college sample (N = 272), we found that self‐esteem generally mediated the effects of all Five‐Factor Model (FFM) traits except Agreeableness and all pathological personality traits—represented in the Personality Inventory of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders traits (5th edition; PID‐5)—except Antagonism on a set of subjective well‐being measures; moreover, dominance analyses showed that self‐esteem was generally more important than any FFM or PID‐5 trait in predicting the subjective well‐being measures. We discuss limitations of our study along with some of its basic and applied implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Most previous research has treated grandiose narcissism and self‐esteem as additive predictors of outcomes, but some theory and evidence suggests they may sometimes interact to predict outcomes. Unfortunately, the nature of this interaction is unclear; we suggest a framework to conceptualize the interaction and test it vis‐à‐vis the interpersonal circumplex framework. Method: Participants (N = 598; Mage = 38.39; 327 females; 72.1% White) reported their levels of grandiose narcissism and self‐esteem and completed interpersonal circumplex measures of efficacies, values, problems, and sensitivities. Results: As self‐esteem decreased, grandiose narcissism related (a) more negatively to communal efficacies and values and (b) more positively to sensitivity to others' communal behaviors. Also as self‐esteem decreased, unexpectedly, grandiose narcissism related (a) more positively to agentic efficacies and problems and (b) more negatively to sensitivity to others' agentic behaviors. Conclusion: Overall, the present findings generally support using interaction models over additive models of grandiose narcissism and self‐esteem in interpersonal contexts, suggesting that grandiose narcissism becomes generally less communal, more agentic, and more interpersonally problematic as self‐esteem decreases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Popular theorizing about happiness pursuit emphasizes universal paths to happiness, but other theorizing acknowledges different people achieve happiness in different ways (i.e., subjective well‐being, SWB). The present work extended this latter perspective by examining how antagonistic pursuit of a grandiose identity ('narcissistic antagonism') – generally thought to reduce narcissistic people's SWB – may relate to increased cognitive well‐being (i.e., a component of SWB) for narcissistic people with lower self‐esteem. In Study 1, participants (N = 417) reported their narcissism, self‐esteem, narcissistic antagonism, and general life satisfaction (to index cognitive well‐being). In Study 2 (pre‐registered), participants (N = 450) reported their narcissism, self‐esteem, narcissistic antagonism, general and domain‐specific life satisfaction, and general affect (to index affective well‐being, which is a different component of SWB). Both studies revealed narcissistic antagonism related to increased life satisfaction only for more (vs. less) narcissistic people with lower (vs. higher) self‐esteem. Study 2 not only replicated this interactive pattern on satisfaction across various life domains but also revealed the interaction may be related to increased negative affect. Broadly, results highlight how different people may enhance features of SWB in different, even 'dark', ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Selective exposure is the tendency to gather viewpoint‐congenial versus viewpoint‐uncongenial information. Extant models of selective exposure suggest this tendency occurs because people anticipate reading congenial (vs. uncongenial) information will cause more favourable intrapersonal consequences. However, these models ignore the notion that people's information choices are, in part, symbolic gestures designed to convey identity‐relevant beliefs to an audience through information display. Drawing from perspectives that emphasize human consumption as symbolic and a way to signal one's identity, we suggest that selective exposure pertains not only to information processing but also to conveying identity through information display. Experiment 1 showed that people characterize information display as a way to communicate their views to an audience. Experiments 2–4 showed that people are averse to displaying uncongenial versus congenial information (without processing the information), anticipate feeling more uncomfortable and more inauthentic merely displaying (without processing) uncongenial versus congenial information, and that people's intentions to engage in selective exposure in daily life are a function of their belief that selective‐exposure displays convey their identity. None of these studies or findings can be generated from extant selective‐exposure theories. Thus, selective‐exposure theories are likely incomplete because they ignore people's beliefs and goals regarding information display. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: The present research profiled antisocial personality constructs in relation to tactical self-presentation behaviors and various beliefs associated with such tactical behavior.Method: An MTurk sample (N = 524; Mage  = 37.89; 61% female) completed indices of the Dark Triad (DT; narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) and self-reported their use of various self-presentation tactics, their beliefs about the subjective logic for executing the tactics (which encompassed ratings of the tactics' utility, ease of execution, and normativity), and the potential for each tactic to arouse self-recrimination.Results: Results revealed high convergence between the DT constructs on a relatively malignant approach to self-presentation. DT constructs related to enhanced usage, enhanced subjective logic, and reduced self-recrimination ratings for all the tactics, except pro-social ones (exemplification and apologizing). Nonetheless, results also revealed some notable anticipated instances of nonconvergences between the DT constructs and tactic usage.Conclusions: The findings highlight that DT constructs function rather similarly at the level of self-presentation and suggest value in considering the DT constructs as indicative of strategic, subjectively logical image cultivation and defense behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Selective‐exposure bias refers to the tendency to predominantly seek out attitude‐consistent information and avoid attitude‐inconsistent information. Although researchers have proposed and tested several underlying psychological factors that might contribute to this tendency, the potential role of social influence has not been addressed. In the present research, we address this issue. In four experiments (total N = 645), participants’ selective‐exposure bias was significantly reduced when the bias was portrayed as non‐normative (vs. normative). In Experiment 4, we obtained evidence for the possibility that this social‐norm manipulation could result in effects on attitudes through information selection. Overall, this research contributes novel evidence for the effect of social influence on selective‐exposure bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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