Community Feeling and Narcissism as Two Opposite Phenomena

Alina Kałużna-Wielobób; Włodzimierz Strus; Jan Cieciuch

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.515895

Community Feeling and Narcissism as Two Opposite Phenomena

Front Psychol. 2020 Oct 27:11:515895. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.515895. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Alina Kałużna-Wielobób¹, Włodzimierz Strus², Jan Cieciuch^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Psychology, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland.
² Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
³ URPP Social Networks University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Abstract

The objective of the current study was to examine the relations between narcissism and Adler's community feeling. Based on theoretical considerations, we claim that community feeling can be treated as an opposite pole of narcissism and we expected that: (1) both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism would be negatively related to community feeling and that (2) grandiose and vulnerable narcissism would be positively related to anti-community domination and isolation. A sample of 520 university students (M_age = 21.37, SD_age = 4.31) completed the Community Feeling Questionnaire (CFQ), the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ) and the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale (HSNS). Structural equation modeling largely confirmed our expectations. These results suggest that narcissism can be understood in terms of a deficit in community feeling. It turned out that community feeling and narcissism are related constructs but they are not reducible to each other.

Keywords: community feeling; grandiose narcissism; narcissistic admiration and rivalry; social interest; vulnerable narcissism.