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Personality: dark traits and pathology

Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire.

NARQ

What it measures
Grandiose narcissism via two strategies: Admiration (agentic self-promotion) and Rivalry (antagonistic self-defense), each with 3 sub-facets
Length and format
18 (full); 6 (NARQ-S). 6-pt Likert (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many: DE (origin), EN, PT-BR, AR, ES, etc.
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Back, M. D., et al. (2013). Narcissistic admiration and rivalry: Disentangling the bright and dark sides of narcissism. JPSP, 105(6), 1013-1037.

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