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Assessment of narcissistic personality disorder: A multi-method review

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This paper examined the available empirical data for the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) for three methods of assessment: semi-structured interviews, self-report inventories, and projective techniques.
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This article is published in Clinical Psychology Review.The article was published on 1996-01-01. It has received 39 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Personality disorders & Personality Assessment Inventory.

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Initial Construction and Validation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory

TL;DR: The Pathological Narcissism Inventory is a 52-item self-report measure assessing 7 dimensions of pathological narcissism spanning problems with narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability and exhibited significant associations with parasuicidal behavior, suicide attempts, homicidal ideation, and several aspects of psychotherapy utilization.
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Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder

TL;DR: Criterion issues must be resolved, including clarification of the nature of normal and pathological narcissism, incorporation of the two broad phenotypic themes of narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability into revised diagnostic criteria and assessment instruments, and elimination of references to overt and covert narcissism that reify these modes of expression as distinct narcissistic types.
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Narcissism at the crossroads: phenotypic description of pathological narcissism across clinical theory, social/personality psychology, and psychiatric diagnosis.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the construct of pathological narcissism is at a crossroads and recommendations for diagnostic assessment, clinical conceptualization, and future research that could lead to a more integrated understanding of narcissistic personality and narcissistic personality pathology are provided.
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Interpersonal analysis of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism.

TL;DR: The validity of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism based upon the results of this study was discussed in terms of clinical theory and with reference to the implications of two subtypes of narcissism for diagnosis and treatment.
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The higher order factor structure and gender invariance of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory.

TL;DR: The authors describe and report the results of two studies that investigate the higher order factor structure and gender invariance of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI), suggesting that it is well suited for the assessment of pathological narcissism.
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Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix.

TL;DR: This transmutability of the validation matrix argues for the comparisons within the heteromethod block as the most generally relevant validation data, and illustrates the potential interchangeability of trait and method components.
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