“I can't get no satisfaction!” The critical role of political skill for workplace status and career satisfaction in grandiose narcissism
This study extends socioanalytic and self-control theory to grandiose narcissism in the vocational career context with a special focus on attained workplace status and career satisfaction. In a sample of N = 406 target–coworker multisource datasets, and target workers with several decades of vocatio...
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| description | This study extends socioanalytic and self-control theory to grandiose narcissism in the vocational career context with a special focus on attained workplace status and career satisfaction. In a sample of N = 406 target–coworker multisource datasets, and target workers with several decades of vocational experience, grandiose narcissism assessed with the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory negatively relates to workplace status, and indirectly to career satisfaction via workplace status, when political skill is low. However, good political skill enables individuals on the higher end of the grandiose narcissism scale to control their antagonistic behavioral tendencies and present their agentic ambitions in a more appropriate manner, mitigating the negative (indirect) association with workplace status and career satisfaction. In sum, we hypothesized and found that with low political skill, grandiose narcissism is negatively associated with career satisfaction via reduced workplace status. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2d4f8015f21f45b19febc39e3d39818d2025-08-20T03:49:17ZengElsevierActa Psychologica0001-69182025-06-0125610498210.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104982“I can't get no satisfaction!” The critical role of political skill for workplace status and career satisfaction in grandiose narcissismFranziska Böhm0Gerhard Blickle1Corresponding author at: University of Bonn, Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9, 53111 Bonn, Germany.; Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9, 53111 Bonn, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, University of Bonn, Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9, 53111 Bonn, GermanyThis study extends socioanalytic and self-control theory to grandiose narcissism in the vocational career context with a special focus on attained workplace status and career satisfaction. In a sample of N = 406 target–coworker multisource datasets, and target workers with several decades of vocational experience, grandiose narcissism assessed with the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory negatively relates to workplace status, and indirectly to career satisfaction via workplace status, when political skill is low. However, good political skill enables individuals on the higher end of the grandiose narcissism scale to control their antagonistic behavioral tendencies and present their agentic ambitions in a more appropriate manner, mitigating the negative (indirect) association with workplace status and career satisfaction. In sum, we hypothesized and found that with low political skill, grandiose narcissism is negatively associated with career satisfaction via reduced workplace status.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825002951Grandiose narcissismPolitical skillWorkplace statusCareer successSocioanalytic theorySelf-control theory |
| spellingShingle | Franziska Böhm Gerhard Blickle “I can't get no satisfaction!” The critical role of political skill for workplace status and career satisfaction in grandiose narcissism Acta Psychologica Grandiose narcissism Political skill Workplace status Career success Socioanalytic theory Self-control theory |
| title | “I can't get no satisfaction!” The critical role of political skill for workplace status and career satisfaction in grandiose narcissism |
| title_full | “I can't get no satisfaction!” The critical role of political skill for workplace status and career satisfaction in grandiose narcissism |
| title_fullStr | “I can't get no satisfaction!” The critical role of political skill for workplace status and career satisfaction in grandiose narcissism |
| title_full_unstemmed | “I can't get no satisfaction!” The critical role of political skill for workplace status and career satisfaction in grandiose narcissism |
| title_short | “I can't get no satisfaction!” The critical role of political skill for workplace status and career satisfaction in grandiose narcissism |
| title_sort | i can t get no satisfaction the critical role of political skill for workplace status and career satisfaction in grandiose narcissism |
| topic | Grandiose narcissism Political skill Workplace status Career success Socioanalytic theory Self-control theory |
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