Equivalence of Narcissistic Personality Inventory constructs and correlates across scoring approaches and response formats

Wetzel, Eunike; Roberts, Brent W.; Fraley, R. Chris; Brown, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2015.12.002

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“…Also, 179 participants in the German sample had missing values on the B-PNI due to drop-out in the course of the online survey, so the composition of the sample differed between the NPI and the B-PNI analysis. Furthermore, there were more issues with noninvariance in the NPI and the NPI has been criticized for a number of reasons, including its unclear factor structure and that some item pairs consist of items measuring different aspects of narcissism (Ackerman, Donnellan, Roberts, & Fraley, 2016;Wetzel, Roberts, et al, 2016). Results at the higher-order level were consistent with the facet level for the B-PNI, with Americans scoring higher than Germans and participants from the UK on grandiosity and Americans scoring higher than Germans on vulnerability.…”

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“…The NPI was developed to assess the DSM-III criteria of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (APA, 1980), though factor analyses suggest that the content is mainly adaptive with a preponderance of items referring to agentic aspects such as leadership (Ackerman et al, 2011;Wetzel, Roberts, Fraley, & Brown, 2016), and only some antagonistic content (exploitativeness/entitlement/manipulation). The Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ) was developed to assess the two components of the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept (Back et al, 2013): admiration (agentic self-promotion) and rivalry (antagonistic self-defense).…”

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“…Here, we use the factor structure obtained by a Thurstonian item response analysis of NPI data, which takes the dependencies between items presented in a pair into account. This analysis yielded three facets (Wetzel, Roberts, et al, 2016): leadership (e.g., I would prefer to be a leader. -It makes little difference to me whether I am a leader or not.…”

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Measurement invariance of three narcissism questionnaires across the US, the UK, and Germany

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With a recent surge of research on narcissism, narcissism questionnaires are increasingly beingtranslated and applied in various countries. The measurement invariance of an instrument across countries is a precondition for being able to compare scores across countries. We investigated the cross-cultural measurement invariance of three narcissism questionnaires (Brief Pathological Narcissism Inventory, B-PNI; Narcissistic Personality Inventory, NPI; and Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire, NARQ) and mean-level differences across samples from the United States (N = 2,464), the United Kingdom (N = 307), and Germany (N = 925). Overall, the B-PNI and NARQ functioned equivalently for US and UK participants. More violations of measurement invariance were found between Germany and the combined US and UK samples, and for the NPI. In the B-PNI and NARQ, Americans scored higher than individuals from the UK regarding agentic aspects (self-sacrificing self-enhancement, admiration), while Germans scored lower than both Americans and UK individuals regarding antagonistic (entitlement rage, rivalry) and neurotic (hiding the self, contingent self-esteem) aspects. More inconsistent results were found for NPI facets. When noninvariance was present, observed means yielded biased results. Thus, the degree of measurement invariance across translated instrument versions should be considered in cross-cultural comparisons, even with culturally similar countries.

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“…Although the NPI and its subscales failed to reach such criterion, it should be noted that it was the only measure with binary response format, which might potentially influenced estimated results. Indeed, existing studies seems to be favourable for the continuous response setting of the NPI (Ackerman et al, ; Grosz et al, ; Wetzel, Roberts, Fraley, & Brown, ). Thus, as the results confirmed the underlying circumplex structure of the CPM and the narcissism aspects within it, we further explored where the different narcissism constructs are located.…”

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Seeking a Common Framework for Research on Narcissism: An Attempt to Integrate the Different Faces of Narcissism within the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits

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The current paper presents a proposal for integrating different narcissism constructs (grandiose, vulnerable, communal, and collective) within the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits (CPM), an integrative model of personality structure that could also be used to accommodate the narcissism spectrum model. The study was conducted on a community sample (N = 781 adults). The theoretically predicted locations of the different narcissism constructs within the CPM space were empirically verified using the structural summary method. We found that grandiose, vulnerable, and communal narcissism can be meaningfully located within the CPM, while the status of collective narcissism remains unclear. Thus, the CPM can serve as a personality matrix explaining the differences and similarities between the various faces of narcissism. © 2019 European Association of Personality Psychology

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“…Cohort differences in narcissism 12 ! factor structure that found the same or similar facets (Ackerman et al, 2015;Ackerman et al, 2011;Emmons, 1984;Wetzel et al, 2016). Table S1 in the Supplemental Material available online contains the factor loadings for all NPI items.…”

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The Narcissism Epidemic Is Dead; Long Live the Narcissism Epidemic

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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.

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Equivalence of Narcissistic Personality Inventory constructs and correlates across scoring approaches and response formats

Cited by 28 publications

References 42 publications

Measurement invariance of three narcissism questionnaires across the US, the UK, and Germany

Measurement invariance of three narcissism questionnaires across the US, the UK, and Germany

Seeking a Common Framework for Research on Narcissism: An Attempt to Integrate the Different Faces of Narcissism within the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits

The Narcissism Epidemic Is Dead; Long Live the Narcissism Epidemic

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