Narcissistic Vulnerability Scale.
NVS
Vulnerable narcissism - the hypersensitive, resentful, entitled-but-fragile pole of narcissism, measured with adjectives
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 11 items. adjective rating; original/default is a 1-7 Likert scale (Not at all to Extremely, both trait- and state-worded); the 0-100 visual-analogue sliding scale is the momentary/EMA adaptation (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 10+ langs approx incl. ES, DE, IT, PL, ZH, TR; a Canadian English gender/sex invariance study is published
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Crowe ML, Edershile EA, Wright AGC, Campbell WK, Lynam DR, Miller JD. Development and validation of the Narcissistic Vulnerability Scale: an adjective rating scale. Psychol Assess. 2018;30(7):978-983.
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