Self-centered and self-employed: Gender and the relationship between narcissism and self-employment

P.D. Harms, Pankaj C. Patel and Joel B. Carnevale

Journal of Business Research, 2020, vol. 121, issue C, 170-179

Abstract: The present study draws from Person-Environment (P-E) Fit theory to examine the relationship between Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and self-employment status as well as the potential for gender to moderate this relationship. Two-wave archival data involving 29,000 respondents of a representative sample provided overall support for our predictions. The results show that although there is a small positive overall effect linking NPD with self-employment, this relationship is moderated by gender such that narcissistic women are less likely to be self-employed than narcissistic men. Moreover, exploratory results demonstrate that narcissists do not ultimately benefit from self-employment status. Specifically, there was no difference in the incomes of narcissists who were self-employed and those who were not. These results suggest that the effects of narcissism on career choice is more complicated than initially believed.

Keywords: Narcissistic personality disorder; Narcissism; Self-employment; Entrepreneurship; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.08.028

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