Dataset for: Can the disposition toward psychotic-like experiences contribute to understanding different faces of grandiose narcissism beyond the Big Five? Evidence from a representative sample in Germany

A process model of narcissism proposes two positively related but distinct subdimensions of grandiose narcissism: Admiration (agentic/bright) and Rivalry (antagonistic/dark). We explore the relationship between narcissism and the Big Five plus Disintegration, the dispositional tendency to psychotic-like experiences. Our hypothesis is that Disintegration has an incremental contribution in explaining narcissism beyond the Big Five. The sample consisted of 2618 respondents representative of the German population. Narcissism was assessed by the NARQ questionnaire, Big Five traits by the Big Five Inventory, and Disintegration by the DELTA scale. As expected, Disintegration contributed in explaining both subdimensions of narcissism over and above the Big Five. A specific personality configuration we named “destructive personality profile”, composed of low Conscientiousness (C), low Agreeableness (A), and high Disintegration (D), was related to both aspects of narcissism, but stronger to Rivalry than Admiration. In the case of Admiration, despite its correlations with the “destructive personality profile” positive correlations with Extraversion (E) and Openness (O) were stronger. The implication of E and O in Admiration but not in Rivalry, as well as the inverse correlation of N with two aspects of narcissism, explains a part of the difference between these two subdimensions of narcissism.