状态自恋与攻击行为——知觉到的威胁、愤怒情绪和敌意归因偏差的多重中介作用
The Mediational Roles of Perceived threat, Anger, and Hostile Attribution Bias between State Narcissism and Aggression

采用2(自恋故事vs.中性故事)×2(威胁情境vs.表扬情境)的被试间设计对162名大学生的状态自恋与攻击行为的关系及其机制进行考察。结果发现:(1)与中性故事组相比,自恋故事能够显著激活被试的状态自恋水平;(2)与表扬情境相比,威胁情境中自恋激活组个体的攻击意向显著高于中性故事组,说明状态自恋激活能够显著增加个体的攻击行为;(3)状态自恋通过知觉到的威胁、愤怒情绪和敌意归因偏差间接预测攻击行为;(4)从总体上来说,知觉到的威胁既可显著直接预测攻击行为,也可通过愤怒情绪间接预测攻击行为。对自恋激活组,状态自恋可以通过影响愤怒情绪和敌意归因偏差间接影响攻击行为;对中性控制组来说,这种关系则不存在。本研究结果证实,状态自恋的激活能够显著增加个体面对消极反馈时攻击行为产生的认知情绪机制。
In most prior research, narcissism has been consistently found to promote aggression under provocation. However, most of them have focused only on dispositional narcissism without considering situational factors that may increase narcissism temporarily. The present studies explored the possibility that experimentally induced increases in narcissism would foster aggressive responding to criticism by increasing perceived threat in a laboratory setting among Chinese college students. 162 college students were randomly assigned to conditions of a 2(narcissism activating story vs. neutral control story) by 2(threat vs. praise) between-subjects design. Structural equation model and bootstrapping analyses were utilized to test the hypothesized mediating model, results showed that (1) there is significant difference in the level of state narcissism induced by different priming stories among participants; (2) the state narcissism activating group expresses more aggression under the condition of threat (vs. praise); (3) the effect of state narcissism on aggression is mediated by perceived threat, anger and hostile attribution biases; (4) on the whole, perceived threat not only directly predict aggression, but also lead to aggression via feelings of anger and hostile attribution biases. For narcissism activating group, state narcissism make an indirect effect on aggression through feelings of anger and hostile attribution bias; for neutral control group, the relationship doesn't exist. The results suggest that factors of emotions and cognitive would produce aggressive behaviors when the narcissists confronted with negative evaluations.