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

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 499-510 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Narcisoidnost i narcisoidna ličnost — operacionalizacija i faktorska validacija konstrukta

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

Relation of Birth Order and Scores on Measures of Pathological Narcissism

1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Curtis ◽  
Donald R. Cowell
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Treatment ◽  
Pathological Narcissism ◽  
Standardized Measures ◽  
Only Children ◽  
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Initial Prediction

To study the relationship between birth order and pathological narcissism, it was predicted that firstborn and only children would score significantly higher on standardized measures of pathological narcissism. Two such measures, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, were administered to 50 randomly selected subjects from a metropolitan mental health and family treatment agency. Subjects were asked to indicate their ordinal birth positions, e.g., first, middle, last, or only, and then were administered both instruments. Analysis supported the initial prediction by indicating that firstborn and only children had higher mean scores on the measures of pathological narcissism. It might be advisable for clinicians to identify patients' ordinal positions while appraising relevant diagnostic criteria and eventual treatment planning.

Headache Symptomology and Neuroticism in a College Sample

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 976-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Kentle
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Sexual Differences ◽  
College Sample ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
University Undergraduates ◽  
Specific Symptoms

The purpose of this study was to investigate headache symptomology in relation to personality as measured by tests derived from use of factor analysis, namely, the Adjective Self-description scales, the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and seven questions of headache symptomology. These were administered to 200 male and 200 female university undergraduates. Only measures of neuroticism were related to headache symptomology; no sexual differences in neuroticism were associated with any of the specific symptoms investigated; and neuroticism tended to increase with the number of symptoms affirmed. However, generalization may be limited due to the small number of symptoms investigated as well as by the lack of specialization of the sample.

Narcissistic Personality Inventory 16—Greek Version

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantinos M. Kokkinos ◽  
Eleftherios Baltzidis ◽  
Danae Xynogala
Keyword(s):  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Greek Version ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory

Narcissism and Causal Attribution

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen R. Ladd ◽  
M. Cay Welsh ◽  
William F. Vitulli ◽  
Elise E. Labbé ◽  
Joseph G. Law
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Causal Attribution ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Negative Events ◽  
Positive Events ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽  
Attributional Style Questionnaire ◽  
The Relationship

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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