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This study intends to examine the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the short form of the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI-SF). The study group consists of a total of 526 university students (54% were female) whose ages range from 18 to 32. In the translational equivalence study made over a two-week interval, the FFNI-SF scores showed high consistency. Cronbach's alpha was found to be .87 for the total score, and the alphas for the FFNI-SF subscales ranged from .57 to .79. Corrected item-subscale correlations for the items ranged from .22 to .73. Confirmatory factor analysis results have shown that among the three competing models derived from the conceptual models, Model 1 with 15 factors had the best goodness-of-fit to the data, n2 = 3851.48, df = 1605, o2/sd = 2.40, RMSEA = .057, AGFI = .74, GFI = .77, CFI = .77, NNFI = .75. The correlation of total scores from the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and FFNI-SF was .65, p < .01. Study results indicated that the Turkish version of the FFNI-SF may serve as a useful tool in assessing narcissistic personality traits in non-clinical samples.
Keywords
Narcissism * Personality * Big five * Five-factor model
Narcissism is named after Narcissus, a famous character from Greek mythology who was fated to fall in love with himself. Narcissism is an important and complex phenomenon studied in many subfields of psychology that include, but are not limited to, clinical (therapeutic), organizational, developmental, and social psychology (Sherman et al., 2015). Narcissism is characterized by grandiosity, arrogance, and a callous defense of one's self-image as perfect; interest in others is only a means for regulating self-esteem (Kubarych, Deary, & Austin, 2004).
The narcissistic personality was first introduced as a psychological concept by Wälder (as cited in Campbell & Miller, 2011). Freud saw narcissism as an unhealthy relationship between one's ego and libido, and he advanced the concept of narcissism by introducing the ego-libido personality type characterized by independence, extraversion, and an inability to commit to long-term relationships; yet narcissists usually attract attention and admiration, taking leadership roles (1991; 1950). Psychodynamic theoreticians such as Kernberg and Kohut are credited for making elaborate efforts at understanding and treating narcissistic personalities and establishing foundations for the Diagnostic and...