Narcissistic Personality Inventory

The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) is the most widely used measure of narcissism in social psychological research.[1] Although several versions of the NPI have been proposed in the literature, a forty-item forced-choice version[2] is the one most commonly employed in current research. The NPI is based on the DSM-III clinical criteria for narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), although it was designed to measure these features in the general population. Thus, the NPI is often said to measure "normal" or "subclinical" (borderline) narcissism (i.e., in people who score very high on the NPI do not necessarily meet criteria for diagnosis with NPD).

Because the NPI was originally based on DSM criteria for NPD, there has been much research on its factor structure. Raskin and Terry (1988) identified seven factors of the NPI (i.e., authority, superiority, exhibitionism, entitlement, vanity, exploitativeness and self-sufficiency), mapping roughly onto the DSM criteria for NPD.[3] Since then, several studies have further examined the factor structure of the NPI with varying results. For example, some studies report three factors; some report four factors. Furthermore, it is often the case that factors of the NPI exhibit very low internal consistency (although the full scale exhibits acceptable reliability). Thus, it may currently be concluded that the factor structure of the NPI is unknown. More recent research has attempted to measure narcissism with just a single-item.[4] Compared to the NPI, one advantage of the single-item measure is that it does not seem to conflate narcissism with normal, or healthy, self-esteem.

Research has found that people who score high on the NPI are more likely to cheat in game-play and romantic relationships, take more resources for themselves and leave fewer resources for others, value material things and be obsessively concerned with their outer appearance.

References

  1. ↑ Westmoreland, Lori (2009). "Measuring Narcissism with Alternate Response Formats of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory".
  2. ↑ Raskin, Robert N.; Hall, Calvin S. (October 1979). "A narcissistic personality inventory". Psychological reports. 45 (2): 590. doi:10.2466/pr0.1979.45.2.590.
  3. ↑ Raskin, Robert; Terry, Howard (1988). "A principal-components analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and further evidence of its construct validity". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 54 (5): 890–902. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.54.5.890.
  4. ↑ van der Linden, S.; Rosenthal, S.A. (2015). "Measuring Narcissism with a Single Question? An Extension and Replication of the Single-Item Narcissism Scale". Personality and Individual Differences. 90: 238–241. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.10.050.

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