Narcissism and Self-Insight: A Review and Meta-Analysis of Narcissists’ Self-Enhancement Tendencies

The current article reviews the narcissism–self-enhancement literature using a multilevel meta-analytic technique. specifically,we focus on self-insight self-enhancement (i.e.,whether narcissists perceive themselves more positively than they are perceived by others); thus,we only include studies that compare narcissists’ self-reports to observer reports or objective measures. results from 171 correlations reported in 36 empirical studies (n = 6,423) revealed that the narcissism–self-enhancement relationship corrected for unreliability in narcissism was.21 (95% confidence interval [ci] = [.17,.25]),and that narcissists tend to self-enhance their agentic characteristics more than their communal characteristics. the average corrected relationship between narcissism and self-enhancement for agentic characteristics was.29 (95% ci = [.25,.33]),whereas for communal characteristics it was.05 (95% ci = [−.01,.10]). in addition,we individually summarized narcissists’ self-enhancement for 10 different constructs (i.e.,the big five,task performance,intelligence,leadership,attractiveness,and likeability). © 2015,© 2015 by the society for personality and social psychology,inc.