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Personality: dark traits and pathology

Single-Item Narcissism Scale.

SINS

What it measures
Grandiose narcissism via a single direct self-rating item
Length and format
1 item. 7-pt Likert (1 = not very true of me ... 7 = very true of me) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Several: DE, ES, PT, 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
Konrath, S., Meier, B. P., & Bushman, B. J. (2014). Development and validation of the Single Item Narcissism Scale (SINS). PLoS ONE, 9(8), e103469.

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