Narcissistic personality features and warmongering: The mediating of role of dangerous and competitive social worldviews

Abstract

The associations between narcissistic personality features and warmongering were examined, as well as whether these associations were mediated by the dangerous and competitive social world views believed to accompany these behaviors. Participants were 664 students from Iranian universities, who provided self-ratings on a short form of the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory, on a warmongering measure (capturing several categories), and on the Social World-view Scale-Revised. The results showed that there is a relationship between narcissism and warmongering and its categories. Also, the results showed that the aspects of narcissism (antagonistic narcissism, extraverted narcissism, and neurotic narcissism) had strong indirect relationships with warmongering and its categories, through the dangerous and competitive social worldviews. An important point about the obtained results was that the role of the competitive social worldview in this relationship was greater than the dangerous social worldview. The literature of this research and its results can be used to deepen our understanding of warmongering and factors related to it. Using its results, we may get a better understanding of the role of personality factors and of worldviews in warmongering and put it to use to help prevent such unfortunate events.