They will (not) deceive us! The role of agentic and communal national narcissism and Russian disinformation in shaping the attitudes to Ukrainian refugees in Poland

Collective narcissism (CN) is associated with outgroup threat-evoked hostility and anti-refugee attitudes. Agentic CNs are more sensitive to realistic than symbolic threats, whereas communal collective narcissists are more sensitive to symbolic threats. Albeit Poles accepted war refugees from Ukraine, the refugees could represent realistic threat (via economic competition), being not a source of symbolic threat (as culturally similar). Therefore, we examined (N = 402) the attitudes of Polish national agentic and communal narcissists toward Ukrainian refugees, both directly and indirectly, through belief in Russian disinformation. Agentic CN was associated with less favorable attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees both directly and indirectly through stronger beliefs in Russian disinformation. Communal CN was correlated to more favorable attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees and weaker beliefs in Russian disinformation. The results align with the assumption that national narcissists react stronger to the kind of threat relevant to the domain that satisfies their narcissistic needs.