Sandbagging and the Self

Barnett, Michael D.; Maciel, Idalia V.; King, M.A.

doi:10.1027/1614-0001/a000272

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“…The authors concluded that sandbagging behavior can have a positive effect on others’ performance impressions, and sandbaggers may actively manipulate the environment for personal benefit. As found by Barnett et al (2018) , narcissists appear to engage in more sandbagging behavior which according to these authors may result from their fragile self-esteem and their hypersensitivity to evaluation. The question arises whether and to what extent strategic sandbagging overlaps with IP.…”

Section: The Impostor Phenomenonmentioning

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The Impostor Phenomenon: Toward a Better Understanding of the Nomological Network and Gender Differences

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The impostor phenomenon (IP) refers to the tendency to perceive oneself as intellectually incompetent and to attribute one’s own success to effort-related or external factors, such as fortunate circumstances. The present study (N=209) aimed to contribute to open questions regarding gender differences in the IP and the nomological network of the IP. The results show that the consistently found key correlates of the IP, that is, lower self-esteem and higher neuroticism, could also play a role in explaining why women report higher impostor feelings than men in many studies. Moreover, the results suggest that IP is characterized by the more maladaptive, socially prescribed perfectionism, which is related to the belief that others expect perfection from oneself, whereas self-oriented perfectionism, which is characterized by a critical view on oneself, plays a smaller role in differences in the IP. Finally, a strong association with the sandbagging construct challenges the conceptualization of the IP as a genuine doubt about one’s own competence, because similarly to IP, sandbaggers present themselves negatively to others, but do so for very strategic reasons in order to create a low expectation base in other individuals. Regression analysis was used to assess the incremental value of the personality factors in explaining variance in the IP. It was found that sandbagging and IP are highly related but not interchangeable.

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“…Researchers have discovered that dealing with oneself temperately, exaggeration and negative comparison increases the risk of dissatisfaction in individuals, such as self-criticism and unfit attitudes toward self-appearance which lowers self-esteem and increases symptoms of psychological dysfunction [39,40]. Self-compassion and self-improvement are also found to be inversely connected to shame and low self-esteem, based on cross-sectional data [41][42][43].…”

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Stimulating appearance comparison dynamics and their effects on psychological dysfunctions: The moderating role of self-compassion

Nawaz,

Rabia,

Javed

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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In recent decades, attitudes towards appearance comparison, and self-disapproval have rapidly increased, and these are attitudes strongly associated with psychological disorders. The present study aims to investigate the underlying patterns of depression, appearance-based stress, dietary constraints, and social and celebrity appearance comparison among young adults. It also examines the role of self-compassion in moderating the relationship between psychological dysfunctions and appearance comparison as well as the criteria and influences contributing to appearance comparison. Data on BMI, the measures of depression, appearance-based stress, eating restraints, appearance comparison, self-compassion, and predictors of peers and celebrity appearance comparison were collected from 434 college students (Age: Mean = 22; SD = 2.36; Male = Female = 217) in Sialkot, Pakistan. The data was analyzed by using the Hierarchical Regression Model. The results revealed that respondents who compared their appearances to peers and celebrities had increased depression and appearance-based stress while eating constraints didn’t affect the appearance-based comparison, stress, and depression. Moreover, self-compassion significantly moderated the relationship between depression, appearance-based stress, and appearance comparison whereas an insignificant moderation effect is observed between eating restraints and self-compassion. Despite psychological distresses such as depression, appearance-based stress, and eating restraints, appearance comparisons are connected to appearance-based victimization, media appearance pressure, social-cultural appearance pressure, appearance conversation, and self-consciousness.

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Living as a diakonos of Christ and pastoral care to the narcissistically entitled person

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2021

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi

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In many research documents, the current age is called the age of entitlement. Closely associated with some forms of entitlement is narcissism. When the church encounters such widespread phenomena, she should consider possibilities and ways to address those in her pastoral care.The theoretical argument of the article is that the church could pastorally care for a Christian who leads a life of narcissistic entitlement, by guiding him to lead the life of a diakonos of Christ according to the New Testament. The relationship between narcissism and entitlement is described, as well as the characteristics of narcissistically entitled persons, and how problems may develop from a narcissistically entitled attitude. A short description is then given of a pastoral process that might be used. Part of the counselling process is to bring someone in the presence of God (coram Deo) to understand what God’s mercy and his prescriptions mean to him or her in his problematic situation.Contribution: Lastly, different passages in which the diakon-words occur in the New Testament were studied and applied to the pastoral care of a narcissistically entitled person in the coram Deo-phase of pastoral care. Based on the results, it can be concluded that in the coram Deo-phase of the pastoral process, the pastoral care of narcissistically entitled persons may be enhanced by leading them to embrace and practise their identity as diakonos of Christ.

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Sandbagging and the Self

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

The Impostor Phenomenon: Toward a Better Understanding of the Nomological Network and Gender Differences

The Impostor Phenomenon: Toward a Better Understanding of the Nomological Network and Gender Differences

Stimulating appearance comparison dynamics and their effects on psychological dysfunctions: The moderating role of self-compassion

Living as a diakonos of Christ and pastoral care to the narcissistically entitled person

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