Brown Ryan P, Budzek Karolyn, Tamborski Michael
Department of Psychology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2009 Jul;35(7):951-64. doi: 10.1177/0146167209335461.
For three decades, social-personality research on overt narcissism has relied almost exclusively on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI). However, the NPI suffers from a host of psychometric and validity concerns that make composite NPI scores (summed across its subscales) difficult to interpret. The present studies propose that narcissistic characteristics tend to fall under two general clusters: grandiosity and entitlement. The studies show that measures of grandiosity and entitlement interact to predict scores on the NPI, controlling for gender, self-esteem, and basic personality (Study 1), but also that grandiosity and entitlement function independently with respect to mental health (Study 2) and ethical misconduct (Study 3). Together, these results challenge the view of overt narcissism as a unidimensional construct and underscore the importance of distinguishing between grandiose and entitled aspects of the narcissistic self-concept.
三十年来，关于显性自恋的社会人格研究几乎完全依赖于自恋人格问卷（NPI）。然而，NPI存在一系列心理测量和效度方面的问题，这使得NPI综合得分（各分量表得分相加）难以解释。本研究提出，自恋特征往往可归为两个总体类别：夸大和特权感。研究表明，在控制了性别、自尊和基本人格因素后，夸大和特权感的测量结果相互作用，可预测NPI得分（研究1），而且夸大和特权感在心理健康（研究2）和道德失范行为（研究3）方面具有独立作用。这些结果共同挑战了将显性自恋视为单一维度结构的观点，并强调了区分自恋自我概念中夸大和特权感方面的重要性。
