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A principal-components analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and further evidence of its construct validity
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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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“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.”
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“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).”
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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
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- 2,273
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