Research Data

Datasets for: All The Working World’s A Stage: Narcissism, Work Values, and Vocational Preferences

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Fezzey, Tyler

Other kind(s) of contributor

Harms, Peter
Cho, Younsung

Abstract / Description

Although narcissism has been shown to be an important predictor of both positive and negative outcomes in the workplace, narcissists themselves are not equally distributed across jobs or industries. Prior research has established that narcissists may be attracted to some professions and not others, but the reasons for these preferences remain largely speculative. Building on prior literature, the present study utilizes the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept model to differentiate between the two motivational drivers of narcissism (admiration and rivalry) and examine how these motivations impact vocational preferences in an online sample of 386 full-time U.S. employees. Further, we investigate the mechanisms through which these preferences are made by testing the mediating role of work values. By understanding how two dimensions of narcissism facilitate interest in different vocations, we expand upon previous research on dark personality and career preferences and provide another way for organizations to pre-emptively identify workers with potentially derailing personality characteristics. Finding that work values mediate the relationship between narcissism and vocational interests reveals that there may be value in exploring this explanatory mechanism with other bright and dark traits.

Persistent Identifier

Date of first publication

2023-04-12

Publisher

PsychArchives

Citation

  • Dataset.csv
    CSV - 133.86KB
    MD5: 4a628088fbbe5918e73d899792d711ad
    Description: Raw data for SPSS
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  • Codebook.csv
    CSV - 2.51KB
    MD5: e4300b2e0183858ecc45a245cc2371d8
    Description: Codebook for the dataset
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  • narc_revision.csv
    CSV - 121.93KB
    MD5: 45fdbc9fd60451709a8ac8eabe4cfb8c
    Description: Dataset for Mplus syntax
    Rationale for choice of embargo: The embargo is important for safeguarding the first use of our research data and ensuring that it is not shared or distributed before the publication of our findings.
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Fezzey, Tyler
  • Other kind(s) of contributor
    Harms, Peter
  • Other kind(s) of contributor
    Cho, Younsung
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2023-04-12T06:28:18Z
  • Made available on
    2023-04-12T06:28:18Z
  • Date of first publication
    2023-04-12
  • Abstract / Description
    Although narcissism has been shown to be an important predictor of both positive and negative outcomes in the workplace, narcissists themselves are not equally distributed across jobs or industries. Prior research has established that narcissists may be attracted to some professions and not others, but the reasons for these preferences remain largely speculative. Building on prior literature, the present study utilizes the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept model to differentiate between the two motivational drivers of narcissism (admiration and rivalry) and examine how these motivations impact vocational preferences in an online sample of 386 full-time U.S. employees. Further, we investigate the mechanisms through which these preferences are made by testing the mediating role of work values. By understanding how two dimensions of narcissism facilitate interest in different vocations, we expand upon previous research on dark personality and career preferences and provide another way for organizations to pre-emptively identify workers with potentially derailing personality characteristics. Finding that work values mediate the relationship between narcissism and vocational interests reveals that there may be value in exploring this explanatory mechanism with other bright and dark traits.
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  • Review status
    unknown
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/8194
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12668
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychArchives
  • Is related to
    https://www.psycharchives.org/handle/20.500.12034/8195
  • Is related to
    https://www.psycharchives.org/handle/20.500.12034/9832
  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Datasets for: All The Working World’s A Stage: Narcissism, Work Values, and Vocational Preferences
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  • DRO type
    researchData