TY - JOUR
T1 - The Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) in Transitional Post-War Croatia
T2 - Psychometric and Cultural Considerations
AU - Jakšić, Nenad
AU - Milas, Goran
AU - Ivezić, Ena
AU - Wertag, Anja
AU - Jokić-Begić, Nataša
AU - Pincus, Aaron L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2014/10/29
Y1 - 2014/10/29
N2 - The Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) is a recently developed measure for assessing grandiose and vulnerable themes of narcissistic pathology. The aim of this study was to validate the PNI in the transitional post-war Croatian society by examining its psychometric properties and factor structure in a sample of Croatian university students (N = 651). The participants filled out several self-report measures of narcissism, as well as measures of trait emotional stability and negative emotional states. Findings of this study supported the existence of seven first-order and two second-order factors of the PNI, invariant across genders. Additionally, all the subscales had good reliability coefficients, while the associations with other measures supported the concurrent validity of the instrument. These findings support the use of the PNI in a transitional post-war society and emphasize certain aspects of cross-cultural stability of pathological narcissism, although some cross-cultural variants should be considered when applying this measure in different cultural settings.
AB - The Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) is a recently developed measure for assessing grandiose and vulnerable themes of narcissistic pathology. The aim of this study was to validate the PNI in the transitional post-war Croatian society by examining its psychometric properties and factor structure in a sample of Croatian university students (N = 651). The participants filled out several self-report measures of narcissism, as well as measures of trait emotional stability and negative emotional states. Findings of this study supported the existence of seven first-order and two second-order factors of the PNI, invariant across genders. Additionally, all the subscales had good reliability coefficients, while the associations with other measures supported the concurrent validity of the instrument. These findings support the use of the PNI in a transitional post-war society and emphasize certain aspects of cross-cultural stability of pathological narcissism, although some cross-cultural variants should be considered when applying this measure in different cultural settings.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10862-014-9425-2
DO - 10.1007/s10862-014-9425-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84912022484
SN - 0882-2689
VL - 36
SP - 640
EP - 652
JO - Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
JF - Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
IS - 4
ER -