items_narcissistic_personality_inventory {edmdata}

Narcissistic Personality Inventory Item Responses

Description

Narcissistic Personality Inventory Item Responses

Usage

items_narcissistic_personality_inventory

Format

An object of class matrix (inherits from array) with 11243 rows and 40 columns.

Details

Items with their desired option response bolded:

• Q1

  • Option 1: I have a natural talent for influencing people

  • Option 2: I am not good at influencing people.

• Q2

  • Option 1: Modesty doesn't become me

  • Option 2: I am essentially a modest person.

• Q3

  • Option 1: I would do almost anything on a dare

  • Option 2: I tend to be a fairly cautious person.

• Q4

  • Option 1: When people compliment me I sometimes get embarrassed

  • Option 2: I know that I am good because everybody keeps telling me so.

• Q5

  • Option 1: The thought of ruling the world frightens the hell out of me

  • Option 2: If I ruled the world it would be a better place.

• Q6

  • Option 1: I can usually talk my way out of anything

  • Option 2: I try to accept the consequences of my behavior.

• Q7

  • Option 1: I prefer to blend in with the crowd

  • Option 2: I like to be the center of attention.

• Q8

  • Option 1: I will be a success

  • Option 2: I am not too concerned about success.

• Q9

  • Option 1: I am no better or worse than most people

  • Option 2: I think I am a special person.

• Q10

  • Option 1: I am not sure if I would make a good leader

  • Option 2: I see myself as a good leader.

• Q11

  • Option 1: I am assertive

  • Option 2: I wish I were more assertive.

• Q12

  • Option 1: I like to have authority over other people

  • Option 2: I don't mind following orders.

• Q13

  • Option 1: I find it easy to manipulate people

  • Option 2: I don't like it when I find myself manipulating people.

• Q14

  • Option 1: I insist upon getting the respect that is due me

  • Option 2: I usually get the respect that I deserve.

• Q15

  • Option 1: I don't particularly like to show off my body

  • Option 2: I like to show off my body.

• Q16

  • Option 1: I can read people like a book

  • Option 2: People are sometimes hard to understand.

• Q17

  • Option 1: If I feel competent I am willing to take responsibility for making decisions

  • Option 2: I like to take responsibility for making decisions.

• Q18

  • Option 1: I just want to be reasonably happy

  • Option 2: I want to amount to something in the eyes of the world.

• Q19

  • Option 1: My body is nothing special

  • Option 2: I like to look at my body.

• Q20

  • Option 1: I try not to be a show off

  • Option 2: I will usually show off if I get the chance.

• Q21

  • Option 1: I always know what I am doing

  • Option 2: Sometimes I am not sure of what I am doing.

• Q22

  • Option 1: I sometimes depend on people to get things done

  • Option 2: I rarely depend on anyone else to get things done.

• Q23

  • Option 1: Sometimes I tell good stories

  • Option 2: Everybody likes to hear my stories.

• Q24

  • Option 1: I expect a great deal from other people

  • Option 2: I like to do things for other people.

• Q25

  • Option 1: I will never be satisfied until I get all that I deserve

  • Option 2: I take my satisfactions as they come.

• Q26

  • Option 1: Compliments embarrass me

  • Option 2: I like to be complimented.

• Q27

  • Option 1: I have a strong will to power

  • Option 2: Power for its own sake doesn't interest me.

• Q28

  • Option 1: I don't care about new fads and fashions

  • Option 2: I like to start new fads and fashions.

• Q29

  • Option 1: I like to look at myself in the mirror

  • Option 2: I am not particularly interested in looking at myself in the mirror.

• Q30

  • Option 1: I really like to be the center of attention

  • Option 2: It makes me uncomfortable to be the center of attention.

• Q31

  • Option 1: I can live my life in any way I want to

  • Option 2: People can't always live their lives in terms of what they want.

• Q32

  • Option 1: Being an authority doesn't mean that much to me

  • Option 2: People always seem to recognize my authority.

• Q33

  • Option 1: I would prefer to be a leader

  • Option 2: It makes little difference to me whether I am a leader or not.

• Q34

  • Option 1: I am going to be a great person

  • Option 2: I hope I am going to be successful.

• Q35

  • Option 1: People sometimes believe what I tell them

  • Option 2: I can make anybody believe anything I want them to.

• Q36

  • Option 1: I am a born leader

  • Option 2: Leadership is a quality that takes a long time to develop.

• Q37

  • Option 1: I wish somebody would someday write my biography

  • Option 2: I don't like people to pry into my life for any reason.

• Q38

  • Option 1: I get upset when people don't notice how I look when I go out in public

  • Option 2: I don't mind blending into the crowd when I go out in public.

• Q39

  • Option 1: I am more capable than other people

  • Option 2: There is a lot that I can learn from other people.

• Q40

  • Option 1: I am much like everybody else

  • Option 2: I am an extraordinary person.

Data pre-processing

We have applied list-wise deletion during pre-processing to remove any observations with missing values from the data set.

Answer coding

The subjects answered a set of assessment items seeking to determine the level of anxiety. Answers given in bold represent the desired response. If a subject matched this response, they were given a 1 inside of the item matrix, otherwise they received a zero.

References

Assessment Design:

• Raskin, R., & Terry, H. (1988). A principal-components analysis of the narcissistic personality inventory and further evidence of its construct validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(5), 890. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.54.5.890

Data originated from:

• OpenPsychometrics. 2013. Narcissistic Personality Inventory. https://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/NPI.zip.

Data used in:

• TBA