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A principal-components analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and further evidence of its construct validity

Raskin, Robert, Terry, Howard·1988·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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We examined the internal and external validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI). Study 1 explored the internal structure of the NPI responses of 1,018 subjects. Using principal-components analysis, we analyzed the tetrachoric correlations among the NPI item responses and found evidence for a general construct of narcissism as well as seven first-order components, identified as Authority, Exhibitionism, Superiority, Vanity, Exploitativeness, Entitlement, and Self-Sufficiency. Study 2 explored the NPI's construct validity with respect to a variety of indexes derived from observational and self-report data in a sample of 57 subjects. Study 3 investigated the NPI's construct validity with respect to 128 subject's self and ideal self-descriptions, and their congruency, on the Leary Interpersonal Check List. The results from Studies 2 and 3 tend to support the construct validity of the full-scale NPI and its component scales.

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  • Ministers who measured high in narcissism and low in intrinsic religiosity exhibited poor ethical judgment.

    “The authors discovered that ministers who measured high in narcissism-per the NPI-16 (Ames et al., 2006), a 16-item version of Raskin and Terry's (1988) 40-item Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI)-and low in intrinsic religiosity exhibited poor ethical judgment.”

    From Humility and Servant-Leadership: Toward a Solution of Pastoral Narcissism (2024) · cites this paper as Raskin and Terry's (1988)

  • Narcissism began gaining attention in mainstream research through the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI), and researchers tend to utilize the NPI to measure narcissism as a personality trait rather than to ascertain a clinical diagnosis.

    “Narcissism began gaining attention in mainstream research through the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Hall, 1979), and researchers tend to utilize the NPI to measure narcissism as a personality trait rather than to ascertain a clinical diagnosis (Raskin & Terry, 1988).”

    From Humility and Servant-Leadership: Toward a Solution of Pastoral Narcissism (2024) · cites this paper as Raskin & Terry, 1988

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Authors
Raskin, R., & Terry, H.
Venue
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Published
1988-05
Volume
54
Issue
5
Pages
890-902
ISSN
  • 1939-1315
  • 0022-3514
Cited by
2,273
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Language
en

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