Parental Divorce and Narcissism among College Students

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 877-878
Author(s):  
Robert E. Billingham ◽  
Jessica Cutrera
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Parental Divorce ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Divorced Families ◽  
Intact Families ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory

342 women and 225 men, undergraduate students, participated in a study to assess whether experiencing the divorce of one's parents affected narcissistic development. In a larger study on the long-term effects of divorce, these students completed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. The analyses indicated that the scores for children from divorced families did not differ from the scores of children from intact families on any of the seven subscales.

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.

scholarly journals The Narcissism Epidemic Is Dead; Long Live the Narcissism Epidemic

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1833-1847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunike Wetzel ◽  
Anna Brown ◽  
Patrick L. Hill ◽  
Joanne M. Chung ◽  
Richard W. Robins ◽  
...  
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.

A Broken Pipeline: Effects of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Barriers on College Students’ Educational Aspiration–Pursuit Gap

2021 ◽  
pp. 089484532199419
Author(s):  
Xu Li ◽  
Young Hwa Kim ◽  
Brian T. H. Keum ◽  
Yu-Wei Wang ◽  
Kelley Bishop
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Career Barriers ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Long Term Effects

This study examined the long-term effects of perceived educational and career barriers due to sexism and racism in college students’ pursuit of postgraduate education (PE) and how such effects were different across gender and racial majority/minority groups. With a sample of 2,717 undergraduate students, results from multinomial logistic regression showed that female and students of color not only perceived higher levels of barriers due to sexism and racism, such experiences further predicted the discrepancies between their precollege aspirations and actual pursuit for postgraduate degrees upon graduation. The higher the perceived barriers, the higher the odds of female and students of color not pursuing PE that they had aspired before college. This negative long-term effect was not observed in male students or White students. Moreover, when intersectionality was considered, women of color was the only group where perceived barriers had significant negative effects on the PE gap. Implications were discussed.

Long-Term Effects of a Preventive Intervention for Divorced Families on Offsprings' Problematic Beliefs About Divorce

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole E. Mahrer ◽  
Colleen M. Carr ◽  
Sharlene A. Wolchik ◽  
Irwin N. Sandler ◽  
Jenn-Yun Tein
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Intervention ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Divorced Families

scholarly journals The Influence of Negative Personality Factors on Choice of Humor: A Study on Undergraduate Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddoju Aishwarya
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Humor Styles ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Humor Style ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽  
Shed Light

The present study explored the correlations between the four humor styles and the Dark Triad traits of personality. Participants were 202 undergraduates from India who finished the humor Styles Questionnaire, the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, and the MACHIV. Results intimated that member who scored higher on sub-clinical psychopathy and Machiavellianism exhibited a more inclination to utilise negative humor styles (self-defeating and aggressive). whereas, individuals who got higher scores on narcissism were progressively inclined to have a preference toward affiliative humor or style and self-enhancing humor style and they negatively correlated with negative humor styles. The study was conducted to help understand the personality traits of individuals with various genre of humor and help to explain the nature of the Dark Triad traits of personality. It said to shed light on the interpersonal styles employed by people who exhibit these attributes.

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

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.

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