Differentiation of the two narcissistic faces in their relations to personality traits and basic values

Many ambiguities exist in the published results of the literature regarding narcissism. The Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept (NARC; Back et al., 2013), which separates the bright and dark sides of narcissism, has helped to resolve some of these ambiguities. The current study used this model to examine the relationship between both sides of narcissism and two other personality characteristics: traits and values. Admiration was strongly related to extraversion and weakly related to all of the traits except conscientiousness, while rivalry was most strongly related to disagreeableness and weakly related to emotional stability and conscientiousness. Regarding relationships with values, admiration was related to openness to change and achievement values, while rivalry was related to power-dominance and power-resources values. Our results support the distinctiveness of the two narcissistic dimensions that are assumed in the NARC. Moreover, we demonstrate that both values and traits provide a unique contribution to explain admiration and rivalry.