2006, ‘Loving Yourself Abundantly: Relationship of the Narcissistic Personality to Self- and Other

We report results from two studies assessing the extent to which narcissism is related to self- and other-ratings of leadership, workplace deviance, and task and contextual performance. Study 1 results revealed that narcissism was related to enhanced self-ratings of leadership, even when controlling for the Big Five traits. Study 2 results also revealed that narcissism was related to enhanced leadership self-perceptions; indeed, whereas narcissism was significantly positively correlated with self-ratings of leadership, it was significantly negatively related to other-ratings of leadership. Study 2 also revealed that narcissism was related to more favorable self-ratings of workplace deviance and contextual performance compared to other- (supervisor-) ratings. Finally, as hypothesized, narcissism was more strongly negatively related to contextual performance than to task performance