The Relationship Between Narcissism And Prosocial Behavior-awe And Self-focused Attention Play Mediating Roles

Narcissists,as a personality trait,are highly self-concerned and have difficulty in empathizing with others.Subject narcissists are more self-concerned and less likely to engage in prosocial behavior than group narcissists,how to reduce the negative effects of subjective narcissism on prosocial behavior from the perspective of self-focused attention is worthy of attention and consideration.Awe is a positive emotion that is experienced outside the current cognitive framework and produces an adaptive response to a large object.Some studies have found that the arousal of awe can weaken the individual’s self-awareness,the shift in attention from the self to others and the larger community strengthens the connection with the environment,resulting in more prosocial behavior,therefore,this study hypothesizes that awe arousal can alleviate the negative effects of subjective narcissism on prosocial behavior by reducing self-focused attention.In study 1,in order to investigate the relationship between narcissism and prosocial behavior,300 questionnaires were sent out to investigate the types of love and prosocial behavior.The results show that there is a negative correlation between subject narcissism and prosocial behavior tendency,the higher the level of subject narcissism,the less prosocial behavior,and the positive correlation between collective narcissism and prosocial behavior tendency.In the second study,a pre-experiment and a formal experiment were conducted to investigate the moderating effect of awe on subjective narcissism and prosocial behavior.In the pre-experiment,40 participants were randomly assigned to recall writing task to evoke specific awe and neutral emotion in order to test the success of recall writing task in arousing awe,the results showed that recollection writing could induce awe successfully.To test the moderating effect of awe emotion on subjective narcissism and prosocial behavior,115 college students were selected and one-way 2level(awe emotion,neutral emotion)was used,the subjective narcissism scale and prosocial behavior scale were used to investigate the subjects’ subjective narcissism and prosocial behavior,and the control group and neutral mood were designed.The results showed that:(1)in neutral mood,there was a negative correlation between subjective narcissism and prosocial behavior;(2)after inducing awe,the negative influence of high subjective narcissism on individual prosocial behavior was significantly weakened,however,there was no significant change in subjects with moderate or low self-love,which suggested that awe played a moderating role between self-love and pro-social behavior.In the third study,to explore how awe affects the relationship between subjective narcissism and pro-social behavior,and how the underlying regulatory mechanism works,self-focused attention was measured.The experimental method,I.E.One pretest and one formal test,was used.In the pre-experiment,60 subjects were divided into two groups: the AWE Group and the Neutral Group to watch the videos In order to investigate how awe affects the relationship between independent variables and dependent variables,self-focused attention was also examined.The results showed that the moderating effect of awe was partly mediated by self-focused attention.Conclusion: self-focused attention mediated the effect of subjective narcissism on prosocial behavior.