Factor Analysis and Construct Validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory\

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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The Narcissistic Personality Inventory: Alternative Form Reliability and Further Evidence of Construct Validity

Journal of Personality Assessment ◽

10.1207/s15327752jpa4502_10 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 159-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 334

Author(s):

Robert Raskin ◽

Calvin S. Hall

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Alternative Form ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

Narcissistic Personality Inventory

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Relationship between Narcissism and Sensation Seeking

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1981.48.1.247 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 247-250 ◽

Cited By ~ 61

Author(s):

Robert A. Emmons

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Personality Variables ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽

Males And Females ◽

Sensation Seeking Scale ◽

The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship between narcissism and sensation seeking. It was hypothesized that a positive relationship would be found between the two personality variables. Undergraduates were administered both the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and Form IV of the Sensation Seeking Scale. For both males and females, scores on the Narcissistic Inventory correlated significantly with scores on the Disinhibition subscale of the Sensation Seeking Scale. Boredom Susceptibility was correlated with narcissism for males, while scores on the General and Experience Seeking subscales correlated significantly with narcissism for females. If disinhibition were a social form of sensation-seeking, the correlations with narcissism for both sexes would be accounted for. The study supports the construct validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and provides evidence for regarding narcissism as a dimension of personality.

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Narcisoidnost i narcisoidna ličnost — operacionalizacija i faktorska validacija konstrukta

Papers on Philosophy Psychology Sociology and Pedagogy ◽

10.15291/radovifpsp.2585 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Petar Bezinović

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Global Measure ◽

Self Evaluation ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

Narcissistic Personality Inventory

In this paper the revision of the recently most used questionaire of narcissism (Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Raskin and Hall, 1979) is presented. The aim of the revision was to obtain an instrument for investigation of narcissism as a pathological aspect of self-evaluation which could be used for Croatian speaking population. The revised version consists of twenty pairs of items, which have a satisfactory internal consistency and reproducibility. Although factor analysis showed that the construct was not unidimensional the results could be treated as a global measure of narcissism

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NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY – POSSIBILITY OF APPLICATION ON A SERBIAN POPULATION

Facta Universitatis Series Philosophy Sociology Psychology and History ◽

10.22190/fupsph1702139r ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 139

Author(s):

Milica Ristić ◽

Vladimir Hedrih ◽

Snežana Stojiljković

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Scale Score ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Personality Inventory ◽

Alpha Coefficient ◽

Narcissistic Personality ◽

Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽

Total Scale Score

The main goal of this research was to investigate some of the psychometric properties of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory – reliability, applicability of a seven-factor structure and its construct validity for a sample of the Serbian population. For this purpose, a 40-item Narcissistic Personality Inventory – NPI and Rosenberg’s Global Self-esteem scale were distributed via internet to 150 participants of both sexes, aged 19 – 56. Investigation of internal consistency of NPI was satisfactory – Cronbach alpha coefficient was 0.87. Also, the seven-factor structure of NPI found with the American sample did not correspond well to the factor structure found in the present study. The total scale score correlated with self-esteem, thereby supporting the validity of the scale.

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