title: Narcissism and Self-Insight: A Review and Meta-Analysis of Narcissists' Self-Enhancement Tendencies.
abstract: The current article reviews the narcissism-self-enhancement literature using a multilevel meta-analytic technique. Specifically, we focus on self-insight self-enhancement (i.e., whether narcissists perceive themselves more positively than they are perceived by others); thus, we only include studies that compare narcissists' self-reports to observer reports or objective measures. Results from 171 correlations reported in 36 empirical studies (N = 6,423) revealed that the narcissism-self-enhancement relationship corrected for unreliability in narcissism was .21 (95% confidence interval [CI] = [.17, .25]), and that narcissists tend to self-enhance their agentic characteristics more than their communal characteristics. The average corrected relationship between narcissism and self-enhancement for agentic characteristics was .29 (95% CI = [.25, .33]), whereas for communal characteristics it was .05 (95% CI = [-.01, .10]). In addition, we individually summarized narcissists' self-enhancement for 10 different constructs (i.e., the Big Five, task performance, intelligence, leadership, attractiveness, and likeability).
authors.affiliation: University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA ejgrijal@buffalo.edu.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grijalva
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
authors.forename: Luyao
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012649:Self Concept
keywords: agency; communion; meta-analysis; narcissism; self-enhancement