IJMB Journal – June 2014 – Abstract

IJMB Journal – Abstracts

International Journal of Management and Business

IJMB Volume V, Issue 1

 

Narcissistic Personality Inventory:
An Assessment of Measurement Equivalence across Countries and Gender:
Irina Cozma^a*, Golshan Javadian^b, Vishal K. Gupta^c, Mario Canever^d

^aDevelopment Dimensions International, irina.cozma@ddiworld.com
^bMorgan State University, gojav2@morgan.edu
^cState University of New York – Binghamton vgupta@binghamton.edu
^dPelotas Federal University canever@ufpel.edu.br

ABSTRACT

Narcissism has emerged as an important topic in scholarly journals and popular press, but these discussions have been sustained in the absence of systematic psychometric research on the cross-cultural and cross-gender generalizability of narcissism measures. Using a psychometric approach, the present research looks at narcissism from two lenses: across countries and across gender. Specifically, we assessed the extent to which a measure of narcissism (NPI-16) is interpreted in a conceptually similar manner by (a) respondents from U.S., Brazil and Iran, and (b) both men and women. Our findings indicate that NPI does demonstrate satisfactory levels of configural and metric equivalence across these three countries and gender.

Keywords: narcissism, NPI, measurement equivalence, gender, country, culture.

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