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Personality: dark traits and pathology

Narcissistic Personality Inventory (40-item).

NPI-40

What it measures
Grandiose/normal-range narcissism; 7 facets: Authority, Exhibitionism, Superiority, Entitlement, Exploitativeness, Self-Sufficiency, Vanity
Length and format
40 items. forced-choice (paired statements) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
30+ langs incl. DE, ES, IT, ZH, PL, NL, FR, JP, 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
Raskin, R., & Terry, H. (1988). A principal-components analysis of the NPI and further evidence of its construct validity. JPSP, 54(5), 890-902.

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