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MEASURING NARCISSISTIC COGNITIONS IN RESPONSE TO RELATIONSHIP THREAT
USING ARTICULATED THOUGHTS IN SIMULATED SITUATIONS
by
Kalina Nikolaeva Babeva
________________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
May 2011
Copyright 2011 Kalina Nikolaeva Babeva
Object Description
| Title | Measuring narcissistic cognitions in response to relationship threat using articulated thoughts in simulated situations |
| Author | Babeva, Kalina Nikolaeva |
| Author email | babeva@usc.edu; kababeva@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-10-27 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-02-08 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Davison, Gerald |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lopez, Steven John, Richard |
| Abstract | Prior studies document that within the domain of romantic relationships dispositional narcissism can be associated with relationship damaging behaviors such as game-playing tendencies (Campbell, Foster & Finkel, 2002) but also with self-reports of relationship preserving behaviors such as resistance to doubts about a partner’s lack of commitment (Foster & Campbell, 2005). The present study investigated the association between dispositional narcissism and responses to escalating levels of threatening information regarding partner infidelity in a novel manner using the Articulated Thoughts in Simulated Situations (ATSS) paradigm. The ATSS is a think-aloud method that captures individuals’ thought content as a structured, experimenter-controlled, hypothetical situation unfolds. One hundred sixty-two undergraduate students verbalized their thoughts in response to three scenarios, in which their romantic partner interacted with an individual of the opposite sex. Participant responses were content-analyzed for the presence of verbal aggression, anger, distress, doubts, positive self-statements and desire for relationship dissolution. Results indicated that level of narcissism was not related to verbalizations of any of the abovementioned codes in the neutral scenario (“no threat” condition); that is, in the absence of threat, high narcissists could not be differentiated from low narcissists based on their articulated cognitions. In the low threat condition, narcissism positively correlated with verbal aggression. In the high threat condition, narcissism positively correlated with verbal aggression, positive self-statements and desire for relationship dissolution but negatively correlated with self-reported distress.; The results of the current study suggest that within non-clinical samples, relatively narcissistic persons are more strongly reactive to threat in a manner that is consistent with the clinical psychology literature on narcissistic rage and aggression (Kernberg, 1975). Stated differently, in the current study the hallmark of narcissism in the presence of threat was verbal aggression. This suggests that high narcissists are not more emotionally responsive to threat than low narcissists; instead they seem to be more behaviorally responsive in a manner that allows them to retaliate against the source of threat. These findings also further support the hypothesis that manifestations of narcissistic behavior vary as a function of the situation individuals are in. |
| Keyword | narcissism; verbal aggression; relationship threat; ATSS |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3647 |
| Rights | Babeva, Kalina Nikolaeva |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Babeva-4266 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Babeva-4266.pdf |
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| Full text | MEASURING NARCISSISTIC COGNITIONS IN RESPONSE TO RELATIONSHIP THREAT USING ARTICULATED THOUGHTS IN SIMULATED SITUATIONS by Kalina Nikolaeva Babeva ________________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Kalina Nikolaeva Babeva |
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