School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia.
Assessment. 2024 Jun;31(4):839-854. doi: 10.1177/10731911231191435. Epub 2023 Aug 8.
The study of narcissism has been hindered by conceptual, theoretical, and measurement in-consistencies. In this article, we report two studies that tested a novel unified conceptualization and theoretical approach to narcissism using the Unified Narcissism Scale-Revised. Study 1 revised the recently developed Unified Narcissism Scale to construct a preliminary 40-item measure in a sample of 395 American participants ( = 41). We confirmed the five-factor first-order model, the two-factor second-order model, and the one-factor third-order model. Study 2 considered the cross-cultural performance of the revised scale in the Chinese language in China ( = 326, = 25.5 years) and in the English language in Sri Lanka ( = 354 = 28.7 years) and constructed a final 35-item measure. In conducting these studies, we have demonstrated the cross-cultural importance of entitlement and self-esteem to the conceptualization of narcissism and suggest that the negative relationship between narcissism and agreeableness may be culture-specific to Western samples (as evidenced by the absence of this relationship in non-Western samples). In this article, we have constructed a measure of narcissism that has refined our understanding of the construct and created a tool to capture this understanding.
自恋的研究受到概念、理论和测量的不一致的阻碍。在本文中，我们报告了两项使用修正后的统一自恋量表（Unified Narcissism Scale-Revised）测试自恋的新的统一概念化和理论方法的研究。研究 1 对最近开发的统一自恋量表进行了修订，在 395 名美国参与者的样本中构建了一个初步的 40 项量表（n=41）。我们验证了五因素一阶模型、两因素二阶模型和单因素三阶模型。研究 2 考虑了在中国（n=326，年龄=25.5 岁）和在斯里兰卡（n=354，年龄=28.7 岁）以中文和英文进行的修订量表的跨文化表现，并构建了一个最终的 35 项量表。在进行这些研究时，我们证明了权利感和自尊对自恋概念化的跨文化重要性，并表明自恋和宜人性之间的负相关可能是西方样本特有的（因为在非西方样本中不存在这种关系）。在本文中，我们构建了一个自恋的测量工具，这提高了我们对该构念的理解，并创造了一种捕捉这种理解的工具。
