items_narcissistic_personality_inventory: Narcissistic Personality Inventory Item Responses
In tmsalab/ecdmdata: Data Sets for Psychometric Modeling

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Narcissistic Personality Inventory Item Responses

1	items_narcissistic_personality_inventory

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

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.

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

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.

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

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