SOEPpapers 886, 13 S.
Marius Leckelt, Mitja D. Back, Joshua D. Foster, Ross Hutteman, Garrett Jaeger, Jessica McCain, Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell
2016
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In a recent study, Bianchi (2014) showed that macroeconomic conditions (i.e. average unemployment rate) during the years of emerging adulthood (ages 18-25) are inversely related to adult narcissism. Fletcher (2015) called into question the robustness of the results and Grijalva et al. (2015) presented meta-analytic support for real gender differences in narcissism. Here we report combined results from five studies (N = 11,394) showing that the average unemployment rate during emerging adulthood indeed tempers later narcissism – but only in men.
Topics: Personality, Business cycles, Gender, Labor and employment
Keywords: narcissism, emerging adulthood, macro economic conditions, replication, gender differences