8/9/2019 Brief Literature Review of Entitlement in
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Broad Entitlement Literature Review
Entitled narcissists
Hold that their superiority entitles them to special treatment,
and are committed to asserting their rights to
special treatment
Bishop & Lane 2002 (Psychoanalytic Psychology)
Campbell et al 2004 (scale validation study)A priori: End of the
semester persistent emails (Christmas Eve example)
Is more specific than narcissism in that entitled narcissism
involves the other more explicitly (as
opposed to the self).
Role of the other:EN and N:
- easy to offend
- insist upon repayment for wrongdoing
- predicts a lack of forgiveness (Exline ea, in press)- prone to
denigrate others, especially those who threaten N s grandiose
self-concept
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social comparison N s more likely to make downward social
comparisons (Bogart ea2004)
o failure: through performance, performance ratings, or social
rejection
o additionally, N s are more reactive to success and failure
feedback compared to non N
s (Rhodewalt & Morf, 1998)
Dimaggio ea (2002) suggest that narcissism is characterized more
by continual self-enhancement than by
high self-esteem or self-esteem instability. Narcissists possess
a meta-cognitive deficit brought on by both
the compulsive search for grandiosity and avoidance of negative
feedback. Narcissists are likely to engagein grandiose fantasies,
which allows the (unstable) positive self-image to persist despite
a lack of positive
social feedback (due to deteriorated social relationships)
Morf & Rhodewalt (2001)
Narcissists appear to be more focused on assertive
self-promoting behavior, at the risk of greater loss or
threat in the event of failure or rejection.So narcissism IS the
fundamental attribution error. :)
More specifically, narcissists see everything as self-relevant.
Narcissism, and narcissistic entitlement,
then, is a problem of the self.
Measures
Entitlement / Exploitativeness dimension of Narcissistic
Personality Inventory
I will never be satisfied until I get all that I deserve
I insist upon getting the respect that is due meI expect a great
deal from other people
I get upset what people dont notice how I look when I go out in
public
Narcissistic Entitlement - (WK) Campbell, 2004
Sense of Entitlement Attitudes toward Education, Campbell lab at
OUTwo factors elicited from honors thesis EDA, 2003
Factor 1 captures broad entitlement
- I am entitled to good grades
