Beyond Religious Narcissistic Identification: Agnostic and Atheistic Narcissism

作者：Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Jaroslaw Piotrowski, Bartłomiej Nowak, Vassilis Saroglou, John Maltby, Constantine Sedikides, Mladen Adamovic, Nur Amali Aminnuddin, Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah, Rahkman Ardi, Zana Hasan Babakr, Einar Baldvin Baldursson, Sergiu Bălţătescu, Muhammed Bilgehan Aytaç, Aidos Bolatov, Bruno Bonfá‐Araujo, Matthias Burghart, Phatthanakit Chobthamkit, Marilyn Clark, Magali Clobert, Richard G. Cowden, Jesus Alonso Datu, Sandesh Dhakal, Sonya Dragova-Koleva, Begoña Espejo, Dmitry Grigoryev, Emanuela Gritti, Katherine Gundolf, Rishad Habib, Md. Imran Hossain, Luís Carlos Jaume, Dzintra Iliško, Naved Iqbal, Veljko Jovanović, Tomislav Jukić, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Narine Khachatryan, Emil Knezović, Monika Kovacs, Heather A. Kumove, Walaa Labib M. Eldesoki, A Martínez Fernández, Norman Li, Uri Lifshin, Kadi Liik, Maxim Likhanov, Agim Mamuti, Rasmus Mannerström, Alison J. Marganski, Marta Martín Carbonell, Maia Mestvirishvili, Chanki Moon, Kostas Α. Papageorgiou, Joonha Park, Pablo Pérez de León, Rogelio Puente‐Díaz, Jano Ramos-Diaz, Troy Smith, Gashaw Tesfa, Kiều Thị Thanh Trà, Habib Tiliouine, Robert Tomšik, Charles S. Umeh, Tadas Vadvilavičius, Kees van den Bos, Alain Van Hiel, Anna Wlodarczyk, Zahir Vally, Christin‐Melanie Vauclair, Illia Yahiiaiev, Fatemeh Zand · 发表于：International Journal for the Psychology of Religion · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.1080/10508619.2026.2656828 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology、Forgiveness and Related Behaviors、Theology and Philosophy of Evil

Agnosticism and atheism are often grouped simply as nonreligious identities, yet emerging research highlights their distinct psychological profiles and social implications. Among these distinctions, collective narcissism – characterized by strong attachment to one’s group, exceptionalism, and grievance for recognition – offers a framework for understanding identity processes in both nonreligious groups. We examined whether agnostics and atheists exhibit collective narcissism and its forms (agentic – focused on exceptional effectiveness; communal – focused on exceptional morality) similarly to believers. We explored cross-denominational variance in agentic and communal collective narcissism levels relying on data from 77 countries (N = 3,570; 1227 agnostics, 2343 atheists). Agnostics and atheists from secular countries reported lower collective (particularly agentic) narcissism relative to their counterparts from religious countries. Further, agnostics and atheists were higher on communal than agentic collective narcissism. The results highlight the utility of the agency-communion model of collective narcissism among nonbelievers.