Narcissism and narcissistic personality — operationalization and factor validation of the construct

Abstract

In this paper the revision of the recently most used questionaire of narcissism (Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Raskin and Hall, 1979) is presented. The aim of the revision was to obtain an instrument for investigation of narcissism as a pathological aspect of self-evaluation which could be used for Croatian speaking population. The revised version consists of twenty pairs of items, which have a satisfactory internal consistency and reproducibility. Although factor analysis showed that the construct was not unidimensional the results could be treated as a global measure of narcissism.