Title: | Narcissism and the strategic pursuit of short-term mating : universal links across 11 world regions of the International Sexuality Description Project - 2 |
Authors: | Schmitt, David P. Alcalay, Lidia Allik, Juri Alves, I. C. B. Anderson, Craig A. Angelini, A. L. Asendorpf, Jens B. Austers, Ivars Balaguer, Isabel Baptista, Américo Bender, Sóley S. Hertel, Janine Hoffmann, Heather Høgh-Olesen, Henrik Houle, Barbara J. Hudek-Knezevic, Jasna Jaafar, Jas Kafetsios, Konstantinos Kardum, Igor Ottesen Kennair, Leif Edward Lawal, Olufemi Adigu Voracek, Martin Khoury, Brigitte Kökény, Tibor Koller, Silvia Legkauskas, Visvaldas Bennett, Kevin Li, Chen Lin, Hung-Yu Lloyd, Robert Locke, Kenneth D. Lombardo, Sylvie A. Vorontsov, Dmitry Luksik, Ivan Lythe, Brian Lyubomirsky, Sonja Malinen, Sanna Martin, Heather J. Bianchi, Gabriel Mashego, Teresa-Anne B. Mills, Michael E. Mikulincer, Mario Mordeno, Imelu G. Wan, Wendy Moya, Miguel Ndeya-Ndereya, C. Nelissen, Mark Neyer, Franz J. Nyborg, Helmuth Oliveira, V. B. Birashk, Behrooz Opre, Adrian Osman, Suzanne L. Paulhus, Delroy L. Weiss, Petr Pawlowski, Boguslaw Penke, Lars Peplau, Letitia Anne Petrovic, Nebojsa Platek, Steven M. Podobnik, Nuška Polonyi, Tünde Bleske-Rechek, April Popper, Miroslav Reips, Ulf-Dietrich Welsh, Deborah P. Rowatt, Wade C. Ruch, Willibald Makore Rukuni, Margaret Rus, Velko S. Sagarin, Brad J. Sakaguchi, Kikue Salas, Sonia Sandnabba, N. Kenneth Boholst, Fredrick Santtila, Pekka Widyatmoko, Siswa Schachner, Dory A. Schmidt, Monika Schütz, Astrid Shackelford, Todd K. Shaver, Phillip R. Sibisi, Lindiwe B. T. Sichona, Francis Simonetti, Franco Sineshaw, Tilahun Boothroyd, Lynda Woertman, Liesbeth Souma, Toshihiko Stefanovic Stanojevic, Tatjana Sukiennik, Irmina Sümer, Nebi Szeghy, Petra Szente, Sara Leyla Szlendak, Tomasz Tefera, Daniel Thoma, Niki Tifferet, Sigal Wood, Eileen Borja, Teresa Tkach, Chris Tordai, Zita Tranthan, Eleanor Tsaousis, Ioannis Tungaraza, F. S. K. Van Duynslaeger, Marijke Van Empelen, Pepijn Van Overwalle, Frank Vanwesenbeeck, Ine Woodward, Lucinda Corrêa Varella, Marco Antônio Bos, Arjan Vera-Villarroel, Pablo Brainerd, Edwin Konrads, Solvina Ye, Hai Youn, Gahyun Zupančič, Agata Brase, Gary L. Brites, José Burakova-Lorgnier, M. Byrd, Mark Camilleri, J. A. Camperio Ciani, Andrea Caral, Leo Gerard A. Kraft, John R. Carnelley, Katherine B. Carvalho, Marina Casson, Janette Castillo, Isabel Castro, Alejandro Casullo, Maria Martina Chirkov, Valery I. Choi, Jean Cohen, Danielle Collin-Hansen, Cecilie Amalie Kuhle, Barry X. Commisso, Melissa A. Consuegra, Elvira Cordovez, Lorena Cukur, Cem Safak Borg Cunen, Mary Ann Cunningham, Michael Curl, Layton Seth Daniel, Petra Denissen, Jaap J. A. Desmarais, Serge Kun, Agota DeSouza, Eros Diaz-Loving, Rolando Elias, M. Shamsuddin Endriulaitiene, Aukse Eremsoy, Ekin Expósito, Francisca Falzon, Ruth Fernandez, Ana Maria Fernando, Kumari Ferreira, José H. B. P. Laireiter, Anton-Rupert Fink, Bernhard Fisher, Maryanne Fitness, Julie Flowers, Karissa Frederick, David Fry, Sirpa Fukushima, Osamu Gaines, Stanley O. Jr. Galliher, Renee V. Gandari, E. Lányi, Katalin Geher, Glenn Gentile, Douglas A. Geri, Jessica M. Giri, V. N. Golden, Deborah Gordon, Fiona Gordon, Kristina C. Grammer, Karl Grimaldi, Liria Giunta, Stephen Lauri, Mary Anne Hajdú, Endre Halberstadt, Jamin Hald, Gert Halim, Magdalena S. Haque, Shamsul Harlem, Siri Katinka Hearns, Krystle A. Heaven, Patrick Helweg-Larsen, Marie Wills Herrera, Eduardo Lavy, Shiri Herrera, Dora |
Keywords: | Narcissism Sex Personality Ethnopsychology |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | Psihologijske Teme |
Citation: | Schmitt, D. P., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Alves, I. C. B., Anderson, C. A., Angelini, A. L., ... & Bender, S. S. (2017). Narcissism and the strategic pursuit of short-term mating : universal links across 11 world regions of the International Sexuality Description Project - 2. Psihologijske Teme. |
Abstract: | Previous studies have documented links between sub-clinical narcissism and the active pursuit
of short-term mating strategies (e.g., unrestricted sociosexuality, marital infidelity, mate poaching).
Nearly all of these investigations have relied solely on samples from Western cultures. In the current
study, responsesfrom a cross-cultural survey of 30,470 people across 53 nations spanning 11 world
regions (North America, Central/South America, Northern Europe, Western Europe, Eastern
Europe, Southern Europe, Middle East, Africa, Oceania, Southeast Asia, and East Asia) were used
to evaluate whether narcissism (as measured by the Narcissistic Personality Inventory; NPI) was
universally associated with short-term mating. Results revealed narcissism scores (including two
broad factors and seven traditional facets as measured by the NPI) were functionally equivalent
across cultures, reliably associating with key sexual outcomes (e.g., more active pursuit of short-
term mating, intimate partner violence, and sexual aggression) and sex-related personality traits
(e.g., higher extraversion and openness to experience). Whereas some features of personality (e.g.,
subjective well-being) were universally associated with socially adaptive facets of Narcissism (e.g.,
self-sufficiency), most indicators of short-term mating (e.g., unrestricted sociosexuality and marital
infidelity) were universally associated with the socially maladaptive facets of narcissism (e.g.,
exploitativeness). Discussion addresses limitations of these cross-culturally universal findings and
presents suggestions for future research into revealing the precise psychological features of
narcissism that facilitate the strategic pursuit of short-term mating. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/59242 |
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