Department of Psychology, University of Georgia.
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University.
Psychol Assess. 2014 Sep;26(3):958-69. doi: 10.1037/a0036613. Epub 2014 Apr 28.
The growing interest in the study of narcissism has resulted in the development of a number of assessment instruments that manifest only modest to moderate convergence. The present studies adjudicate among these measures with regard to criterion validity. In the 1st study, we compared multiple narcissism measures to expert consensus ratings of the personality traits associated with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD; Study 1; N = 98 community participants receiving psychological/psychiatric treatment) according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2000) using 5-factor model traits as well as the traits associated with the pathological trait model according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In Study 2 (N = 274 undergraduates), we tested the criterion validity of an even larger set of narcissism instruments by examining their relations with measures of general and pathological personality, as well as psychopathology, and compared the resultant correlations to the correlations expected by experts for measures of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. Across studies, the grandiose dimensions from the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI; Glover, Miller, Lynam, Crego, & Widiger, 2012) and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (Raskin & Terry, 1988) provided the strongest match to expert ratings of DSM-IV-TR NPD and grandiose narcissism, whereas the vulnerable dimensions of the FFNI and the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (Pincus et al., 2009), as well as the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale (Hendin & Cheek, 1997), provided the best match to expert ratings of vulnerable narcissism. These results should help guide researchers toward the selection of narcissism instruments that are most well suited to capturing different aspects of narcissism.
对自恋研究的兴趣日益浓厚,导致了许多评估工具的发展,这些工具仅表现出适度到中度的收敛。本研究根据《精神障碍诊断与统计手册》(第四版修订版;DSM-IV-TR;美国精神病学协会,2000 年)中与自恋型人格障碍(NPD)相关的人格特质的专家共识评分,对这些测量方法进行了裁决。在第一项研究中,我们将多种自恋测量方法与专家共识评分进行了比较,以根据《精神障碍诊断与统计手册》(第五版;美国精神病学协会,2013 年)中与病理性特质模型相关的特质以及五因素模型特质来评估与 NPD 相关的人格特质(N = 98 名接受心理/精神病学治疗的社区参与者)。在第二项研究中(N = 274 名本科生),我们通过检查自恋量表与一般和病理性人格以及精神病理学的关系,检验了甚至更大的自恋量表的效标效度,并将得出的相关与专家对夸大和脆弱自恋量表的相关进行了比较。在这两项研究中,五因素自恋量表(FFNI;Glover、Miller、Lynam、Crego 和 Widiger,2012)和自恋人格量表(Raskin 和 Terry,1988)的夸大维度与 DSM-IV-TR NPD 和夸大自恋的专家评分最匹配,而 FFNI 和病理性自恋量表(Pincus 等人,2009)以及敏感自恋量表(Hendin 和 Cheek,1997)的脆弱维度与脆弱自恋的专家评分最匹配。这些结果应该有助于指导研究人员选择最适合捕捉自恋不同方面的自恋量表。