Female grandiose narcissists are willing to post sexualized selfies to garner attention, regardless of self-esteem
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Many of the sexualized images found on social network sites are selfies posted by the women themselves. To understand the factors associated with these self-presentations, the current study studied attention seeking as a mediating factor in the relation between grandiose narcissistic tendency and willingness to post sexualized selfies, with self-esteem as a moderating factor, within the framework of the Uses and Gratifications theory. An online survey was conducted with a sample of 193 self-identified female, undergraduate students (95% between 17 and 25 years of age) who are active on at least one photo-based social networking site platform. Controlling for willingness to post non-sexualized selfies, grandiose narcissistic tendency was positively associated with the willingness to post sexual selfies, by increasing adoption of an attention seeking motive. Self-esteem did not moderate the indirect effect, suggesting that sexualized selfies may function as a deliberate means of gaining visibility rather than a compensatory strategy for low self-esteem. Potential implications regarding the selfie-posting behaviors of those with grandiose narcissistic tendencies are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".