How do narcissists really feel about getting older? New research offers some surprising answers, writes swhitbo
whereas men become even more handsome with gray hair and a few “smile lines.” As a result, the narcissism “crisis” of aging could be even more pronounced in aging women.According to Michigan State University’s Rebekka Weidmann and colleagues , the issue of aging’s relationship to narcissism is a complicated one. Narcissism doesn’t, they maintain, increase in later life but, instead, shows a continuous decline.
Digging further into previous studies, Weidmann et al. note that these earlier findings gloss over the variations in definitions of narcissism. Not only do the studies differ in which measures were used, but they also fail to distinguish sufficiently between grandiose and vulnerable . As you might already know, in some approaches to narcissism, both varieties are seen as stemming from the same inner beliefs of inferiority.
There is another factor to consider, though, according to Weidmann and her colleagues. Recent theories of narcissism now talk about a “trifurcated” perspective. One piece of the narcissism equation is “agentic,” which is also called “narcissistic admiration.” Piece number two is “antagonistic,” also referred to as “narcissistic rivalry.”It may be the case that aging affects these three components differently.
Across two separate studies drawing from online data collection and the compilation of literally massive amounts of data from previous researchers, the Michigan State–led research team tested the basic statistical formula comparing the factors of age, gender, and the intersection of age and gender on narcissism scores. Oddly enough, given the negative messages given to women about growing older, all comparisons by gender yielded the pattern of higher scores in men.
Among the eight narcissism measures that the authors used for their analyses, only the narcissism scale derived from the manual used to make
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