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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 2/2011

01-06-2011

Characterizing Pathological Narcissism in Terms of the HEXACO Model of Personality

Auteurs: Konrad Bresin, Kathryn H. Gordon

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment | Uitgave 2/2011

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Abstract

This study investigated the grandiose and vulnerable subscales of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI; Pincus et al. (Psychological Assessment, 21, 365-379, 2009)) in the context of the HEXACO model of personality. Based upon previous research, we predicted that grandiose aspects of narcissism would be related to high extraversion, low emotionality, and low agreeableness, while vulnerable aspects of narcissism would be associated with low extraversion, high emotionality, and low agreeableness (Miller and Campbell (Journal of Personality, 76, 449-476, 2008)). We also examined whether the honesty-humility domain helped differentiate between the two aspects of narcissism. We predicted that grandiose aspects of narcissism would be related to low levels of honesty-humility because of a tendency to exploit others, while vulnerable aspects of narcissism would be unrelated to honesty-humility. Our predictions were supported for the vulnerable subscale of the PNI for both zero-order and partial effects. However, for the grandiose subscale, our predictions were only supported when controlling for covariance between the PNI subscales and the HEXACO domains.
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Due to a clerical error, a 5 point scale was used instead of the 6 point scale in the original PNI (Pincus et al. 2009).
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Characterizing Pathological Narcissism in Terms of the HEXACO Model of Personality
Auteurs
Konrad Bresin
Kathryn H. Gordon
Publicatiedatum
01-06-2011
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment / Uitgave 2/2011
Print ISSN: 0882-2689
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3505
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-010-9210-9

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