Journal article
On studying narcissism in personality inventories rather than the Narcissistic Personality Inventory: Reply to Miller and Lynam (2017)
Psychological assessment, Vol.29(11), pp.1417-1419
11/2017
DOI: 10.1037/pas0000543
PMID: 29154601
Abstract
Miller and Lynam's (2017) commentary proved to be very helpful in clarifying that
alerting-CV and
contrast-CV coefficient values reported in our study indicated that the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) yielded a trait profile much more closely aligned with expert ratings of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition; DSM-IV) narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) than did other measures. The commentary gives us the opportunity to make it clear that our study was designed to demonstrate the clinical usefulness of Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) domain and trait scales in profiling pathological narcissism. Thus, demonstrating the superiority/inferiority of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) over the NPI was not among the aims of our study. The publication of the commentary also gives us the opportunity to clarify the reasons why we think that the interpretation of the
alerting-CV and
contrast-CV coefficients deserves some cautions. As a final remark, we think that the time has come to move from personality disorder classifications based on "clinical wisdom" to a redefinition of personality pathology in terms of systems of traits. (PsycINFO Database Record
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- On studying narcissism in personality inventories rather than the Narcissistic Personality Inventory: Reply to Miller and Lynam (2017)
- Creators
- Andrea Fossati - Faculty of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele UniversityAntonella Somma - Faculty of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele UniversitySerena Borroni - Faculty of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele UniversityKristian E Markon - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychological assessment, Vol.29(11), pp.1417-1419
- DOI
- 10.1037/pas0000543
- PMID
- 29154601
- ISSN
- 1040-3590
- eISSN
- 1939-134X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2017
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984083832602771
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