scholarly journals The “Why” and “How” of Narcissism: A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stathis Grapsas ◽  
Eddie Brummelman ◽  
Mitja D. Back ◽  
Jaap J. A. Denissen
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Grandiose Narcissism ◽  
The Status ◽  
Regulation Model ◽  
Over Time

We propose a self-regulation model of grandiose narcissism. This model illustrates an interconnected set of processes through which narcissists (i.e., individuals with relatively high levels of grandiose narcissism) pursue social status in their moment-by-moment transactions with their environments. The model shows that narcissists select situations that afford status. Narcissists vigilantly attend to cues related to the status they and others have in these situations and, on the basis of these perceived cues, appraise whether they can elevate their status or reduce the status of others. Narcissists engage in self-promotion (admiration pathway) or other-derogation (rivalry pathway) in accordance with these appraisals. Each pathway has unique consequences for how narcissists are perceived by others, thus shaping their social status over time. The model demonstrates how narcissism manifests itself as a stable and consistent cluster of behaviors in pursuit of social status and how it develops and maintains itself over time. More broadly, the model might offer useful insights for future process models of other personality traits.

Grapsas,Brummelman,Back,Denissen - A Process Model of Narcissistic Status Pursuit - In Press

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efstathios Grapsas ◽  
Eddie Brummelman ◽  
Mitja Back ◽  
Jaap J. A. Denissen
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Grandiose Narcissism ◽  
The Status ◽  
Regulation Model ◽  
Over Time

We propose a self-regulation model of grandiose narcissism. This model illustrates an interconnected set of processes through which narcissists (i.e., individuals with relatively high levels of grandiose narcissism) pursue social status in their moment-by-moment transactions with their environments. According to the model, narcissists select situations that afford status. Narcissists vigilantly attend to cues related to the status they and others have in these situations. Based on these perceived cues, narcissists appraise whether they can elevate their status or reduce the status of others. In accordance with these appraisals, narcissists engage in self-promotion (admiration pathway) or other-derogation (rivalry pathway). Each pathway has unique consequences for how narcissists are perceived by others, thus shaping their social status over time. The model we offer helps understand how narcissism manifests itself as a stable and consistent cluster of behaviors in pursuit of social status and how it develops and maintains itself over time. More broadly, the model might offer useful insights for future process models of other personality traits.

scholarly journals Collaborative method to maintain business process models updated

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuno Castela ◽  
Paulo Dias ◽  
Marielba Zacarias ◽  
José Tribolet
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
Business Process Model ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Over Time

Business process models are often forgotten after their creation and its representation is not usually updated. This appears to be negative as processes evolve over time. This paper discusses the issue of business process models maintenance through the definition of a collaborative method that creates interaction contexts enabling business actors to discuss about business processes, sharing business knowledge. The collaboration method extends the discussion about existing process representations to all stakeholders promoting their update. This collaborative method contributes to improve business process models, allowing updates based in change proposals and discussions, using a groupware tool that was developed. Four case studies were developed in real organizational environment. We came to the conclusion that the defined method and the developed tool can help organizations to maintain a business process model updated based on the inputs and consequent discussions taken by the organizational actors who participate in the processes.

Why Do Narcissists Care So Much About Intelligence?

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Zajenkowski ◽  
Michael Dufner
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Grandiose Narcissism ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
High Intelligence

Grandiose narcissists typically pursue agentic goals, such as social status, competence, and autonomy. We argue that because high intelligence is a key asset for the attainment of such agentic goals, the concept of intelligence should play a prominent role in grandiose narcissists’ self-regulation and social behavior. We review the relevant literature and report evidence in support of this claim. Grandiose narcissists consider intelligence to be an important resource that leads to benefits across life domains, they tend to maintain and defend illusory positive intellectual self-views, and they are extremely motivated to appear intelligent to other people. Thus, even though grandiose narcissism is essentially unrelated to objectively assessed intelligence, intelligence nevertheless plays an important role in the way grandiose narcissists think, feel, and behave. We discuss potential implications for social relationships and point toward avenues for future research.

Transformative Self-Regulation and the Quiet Ego

2021 ◽  
pp. 263-285
Author(s):  
Jack Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Dual Processes ◽  
Quiet Ego ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Over Time

This chapter examines how the transformative self facilitates long-term self-regulation. Most research on self-regulation targets the immediate moment (referred to here as micro self-regulation) or personal events that last weeks or months (meso self-regulation). In contrast, the transformative self functions as a tool for macro self-regulation in one’s attempt to shape one’s life over time (for which evolving life stories are especially well suited). Hedonic, transformative self-regulation comes in the forms of realistic optimism, self-improvement motivation, cybernetic feedback motives, intentional self-development, and the flexible pursuit of goals. Eudaimonic, transformative self-regulation is especially helpful for adaptation to life’s difficulties and is found in dual-process models of adaptation to loss and potential trauma. These dual processes aim to regulate and balance both affect and meaning-making. The quiet ego represents a synthesis of these forms of self-regulation, balancing detached awareness (e.g., mindfulness), inclusive identity (e.g., interdependence, compassion), perspective-taking (e.g., value perspectivity), and growth-mindedness.

Is It a Masterpiece? Social Construction and Objective Constraint in the Evaluation of Excellence

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stoyan V. Sgourev ◽  
Niek Althuizen
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Subjective Social Status ◽  
Visual Exploration ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
The Status ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Art Evaluation

A key question in scholarship on evaluation is the extent to which the role of social construction is constrained by objective reality. This question is addressed in an analysis of the evaluation of artistic excellence. In an online experiment, we manipulate the subjective social status (both artwork and artist) and the degree of aesthetic complexity of the artwork. The results confirm the independent role of the objective aesthetic factor in art evaluation. Most importantly, we document an interaction between subjective and objective factors whereby aesthetic complexity serves as a credibility lever, amplifying or attenuating the credibility of the status labels. Excessive praise (i.e., a masterpiece by a world-famous artist) tends to reduce the appreciation of aesthetically simple artworks when status labels are questioned. However, the association of aesthetic complexity with the capacity to provoke thought may encourage respondents to take the paintings more seriously. Complexity is typically discouraged for standard products, but it can be instrumental in the process of singularization by stimulating visual exploration and sustaining interest over time.

scholarly journals Verification Method for Accumulative Event Relation of Message Passing Behavior with Process Tree for IoT Systems

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
Mohd Anuaruddin Bin Ahmadon ◽  
Shingo Yamaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Message Passing ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Occurrence Probability ◽  
Tree Model ◽  
Verification Method ◽  
Event Order ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Process Tree

In this paper, we proposed a verification method for the message passing behavior of IoT systems by checking the accumulative event relation of process models. In an IoT system, it is hard to verify the behavior of message passing by only looking at the sequence of packet transmissions recorded in the system log. We proposed a method to extract event relations from the log and check for any minor deviations that exist in the system. Using process mining, we extracted the variation of a normal process model from the log. We checked for any deviation that is hard to be detected unless the model is accumulated and stacked over time. Message passing behavior can be verified by comparing the similarity of the process tree model, which represents the execution relation between each message passing event. As a result, we can detect minor deviations such as missing events and perturbed event order with occurrence probability as low as 3%.

scholarly journals Urdu, Punjabi & Pothwari: Striking Similarities & Uniqueness of the Three Indo-Aryan Languages

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 427-438
Author(s):  
Salma Qayyum ◽  
Samina Qayyum ◽  
Najma Qayyum
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Local Population ◽  
The Status ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Oriental Language

Urdu, Punjabi and Pothwari are the three most widely spoken languages in Pakistan and India. Historical invasions and colonization resulted in the dispersal of the local population, causing numerous dialects of each language. There are different theories and myths about the historical connection of these languages. One such theory says that Pothwari is a variant of the Punjabi language. This might be due to the perception that Pothwari has so far been unable to claim the status of an independent language and thus, has a subordinated, relegated or inferior social status. The main reason behind this might be the folk linguistic perceptions that connect this great Oriental language with the uneducated and the unrefined. Though Urdu, Punjabi and Pothwari have sprung from the same ancestral source, they have developed uniquely over centuries. This article explores how the shared features between these three languages have diverged over time, causing great linguistic diversification

The ‘Other Arab’ and Gulf Citizens

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manal A. Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
The Status ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Generational Divide

This chapter explores the fate of Arabs of Palestinian origin in the UAE, culminating in events surrounding the first Gulf War and the Arab uprisings. The specific questions this project addresses include: In the context of the UAE, which factors have historically shaped and changed the position of “other Arabs” over time? How have Palestinians, including younger generations, negotiated and addressed their sometimes tenuous relationship with the UAE? What do current dynamics portend for future relations between Emiratis and Arabs of Palestinian origin who live in the UAE? Two important observations emerged from this research which challenged existing assumptions about the status of Arabs in the UAE and the GCC more generally. First, there is an important generational divide which challenges many preconceived notions surrounding relations between locals and expatriates, sense of belonging, and issues of trust. The guardedness and caution that characterized earlier generations did not appear as salient or relevant for the younger generation. Second, and perhaps more importantly, this research reaffirmed the primacy of privilege associated with class and social status as it relates to citizenship. Although Emirati citizenship itself was not necessarily sought after, the attainment of legal citizenship in a stable country remained significant for the lives of Palestinian migrants.

A Self-Regulation Model of Sexual Grooming

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian A. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Sexual Offending ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Universal Model ◽  
Sexual Offenses ◽  
Transient Nature ◽  
Rapport Building ◽  
Regulation Model

A preparatory process is widely accepted to be a common feature in the perpetration of sexual offenses. Numerous commentators, however, have documented the difficulties in defining and understanding this process, given its transient nature and its specificity to this one form of criminal behavior. This theoretical review aims to provide a universal model of a grooming process for the achievement of illicit or illegal goals in which achievement requires the compliance or submission of another individual—one that can be applied both to the sexual offending process and beyond. First, an evaluation of three process models of grooming is conducted. Second, using a process of theory knitting, an integrated universal model of illicit grooming is developed. This model unites salient elements of the previous models while seeking to address their limitations. It is founded in control theory and self-regulation approaches to behavior, assumes a goal-directed protagonist, and comprises two distinct phases, namely, (1) a potentiality phase of rapport-building, incentivization, disinhibition, and security-management and (2) a disclosure phase in which goal-relevant information is introduced in a systematic and controlled manner in order to desensitize the target. Finally, the theoretical quality of the model is appraised, and its clinical implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Relationships Between Narrow Personality Traits and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies: Exploring the Role of Mindfulness, Contingent Self-Esteem, and Self-Control

AERA Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 233285842094949
Author(s):  
Felicitas Opelt ◽  
Malte Schwinger
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Academic Competence ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulation Model

Based on Boekaerts’ dual-processing self-regulation model, our study seeks to examine to what extent narrow personality traits are associated with different aspects of self-regulated learning. We approach this research question by examining the relationships of the narrow personality traits mindfulness, contingent self-esteem (domain academic competence), and self-control with various self-regulated learning strategies, emotion regulation strategies, and affective well-being during learning in a sample of N = 588 university students. Path analysis revealed the selected narrow personality traits to be significantly related to a variety of the investigated self-regulated learning variables, with more relationships to self-control and the contingent self-esteem domain academic competence than to mindfulness. Our study overall contributes to the understanding of how the selected narrow personality traits of students are associated with various aspects of their self-regulated learning behavior. Practical implications for promoting self-regulated learning via training (self-control) and counseling services (contingent self-esteem) are discussed.

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