Narcissistic Personality Inventory (16-item).
NPI-16
- What it measures
- Grandiose narcissism, unidimensional short screen (subset of NPI-40)
- Length and format
- 16 items. forced-choice (paired statements) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many (follows NPI-40 adaptations): DE, ES, IT, etc.
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Ames, D. R., Rose, P., & Anderson, C. P. (2006). The NPI-16 as a short measure of narcissism. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(4), 440-450.
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