Narcissistic Personality Inventory--Slovenian Version

This study examined the relationship between scores on narcissistic personality traits and causal attributions to positive and negative events. 119 undergraduate students in psychology as participants completed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory-40, the Attributional Style Questionnaire, and several Self-referencing Closed-ended Vignettes. Analyses indicated that men who scored higher on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory-40 made more internal and stable attributions to positive events and more external and unstable attributions to negative events than did men who scored lower on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory-40. Also scores on the Self-referencing Closed-ended Vignettes correlated significantly and positively with the Attributional Style Questionnaire, providing evidence for the validity of the vignettes.

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Examining the Dimensionality of Pathological Narcissism: Factor Analysis and Construct Validity of the O'Brien Multiphasic Narcissism Inventory

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1987.61.2.499 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

pp. 499-510 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Michael L. O'Brien

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

American Psychiatric Association ◽

Preliminary Evidence ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Personality Dimension ◽

Pathological Narcissism ◽

Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽

Group Measure

The focus of the current research was to investigate the structure of possible dimensions of pathological narcissism as suggested by the American Psychiatric Association and recently by Miller. For this study, a 75-item instrument, the O'Brien Multiphasic Narcissism Inventory, was developed. Three studies provide preliminary evidence of the test's validity. A factor analysis, in Study 1, identified three orthogonal scales, labelled Narcissistic Personality Dimension, Poisonous Pedagogy Dimension, and Narcissistically Abused Personality Dimension. In Studies 2 and 3, issues of validity were investigated by testing construct hypotheses and by correlating scores on the new scales with those on both the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and Eysenck Personality Inventory. Taken as a whole, the three studies give encouraging evidence that the new scales provide a useful group measure of the dimensions of pathological narcissistic personality.

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Revised Neo Personality Inventory Profiles of Narcissistic and Nonnarcissistic People

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1994.75.1.512 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 512-514 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Nerella V. Ramanaiah ◽

Fred R. J. Detwiler ◽

Anupama Byravan

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Personality Profiles ◽

Neo Personality Inventory ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

Revised Neo Personality Inventory ◽

Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽

Univariate Analyses

This study investigated the construct validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory against the Revised NEO Personality Inventory to test the hypothesis that narcissistic and nonnarcissistic people have different personality profiles The two inventories were administered to 96 male and 92 female undergraduates Multivariate as well as univariate analyses of variance indicated that the Revised NEO Personality Inventory profiles were significantly different for narcissistic and nonnarcissistic groups which supported the construct validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory.

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Narcissistic Personality Inventory

Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_705-1 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Robert A. Ackerman

Keyword(s):

Personality Inventory ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

Narcissistic Personality Inventory

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The Narcissism Epidemic Is Dead; Long Live the Narcissism Epidemic

Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/0956797617724208 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 28 (12) ◽

pp. 1833-1847 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Eunike Wetzel ◽

Anna Brown ◽

Patrick L. Hill ◽

Joanne M. Chung ◽

Richard W. Robins ◽

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Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Measurement Equivalence ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽

Small Decline

Are recent cohorts of college students more narcissistic than their predecessors? To address debates about the so-called “narcissism epidemic,” we used data from three cohorts of students (1990s: N = 1,166; 2000s: N = 33,647; 2010s: N = 25,412) to test whether narcissism levels (overall and specific facets) have increased across generations. We also tested whether our measure, the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI), showed measurement equivalence across the three cohorts, a critical analysis that had been overlooked in prior research. We found that several NPI items were not equivalent across cohorts. Models accounting for nonequivalence of these items indicated a small decline in overall narcissism levels from the 1990s to the 2010s ( d = −0.27). At the facet level, leadership ( d = −0.20), vanity ( d = −0.16), and entitlement ( d = −0.28) all showed decreases. Our results contradict the claim that recent cohorts of college students are more narcissistic than earlier generations of college students.

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