On Being Eager and Uninhibited: Narcissism and Approach-Avoidance Motivation Export

@article{citeulike:2988935, abstract = {This article demonstrates the validity and utility of conceptualizing narcissistic personality in terms of relative approach-avoidance motivation. Across three studies (N = 1,319), narcissism predicted high approach and low avoidance motivation. That is, narcissists reported being strongly motivated to approach desirable outcomes but only weakly motivated to avoid negative outcomes. Relative approach-avoidance motivation was shown to be useful in terms of explaining behavioral tendencies associated with narcissism (i.e., functional and dysfunctional impulsivity) and distinguishing different "flavors" of narcissism (i.e., overt and covert narcissism). Discussion focuses on how approach-avoidance motivation may be used to explain prior findings in the narcissism literature and generate novel future hypotheses. 10.1177/0146167208316688}, author = {Foster, Joshua D. and Trimm, Riley F.}, citeulike-article-id = {2988935}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167208316688}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/7/1004}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18436654}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18436654}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0146167208316688}, journal = {Pers Soc Psychol Bull}, keywords = {pca, pspb}, month = {July}, number = {7}, pages = {1004--1017}, posted-at = {2008-07-11 16:39:51}, priority = {2}, title = {On Being Eager and Uninhibited: Narcissism and Approach-Avoidance Motivation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167208316688}, volume = {34}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2988935 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2988935 N2 - This article demonstrates the validity and utility of conceptualizing narcissistic personality in terms of relative approach-avoidance motivation. Across three studies (N = 1,319), narcissism predicted high approach and low avoidance motivation. That is, narcissists reported being strongly motivated to approach desirable outcomes but only weakly motivated to avoid negative outcomes. Relative approach-avoidance motivation was shown to be useful in terms of explaining behavioral tendencies associated with narcissism (i.e., functional and dysfunctional impulsivity) and distinguishing different "flavors" of narcissism (i.e., overt and covert narcissism). Discussion focuses on how approach-avoidance motivation may be used to explain prior findings in the narcissism literature and generate novel future hypotheses. 10.1177/0146167208316688 IS - 7 JF - Pers Soc Psychol Bull EP - 1017 TI - On Being Eager and Uninhibited: Narcissism and Approach-Avoidance Motivation VL - 34 SP - 1004 KW - pca KW - pspb AU - Foster, Joshua AU - Trimm, Riley PY - 2008/07/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167208316688 ER -