IX. Personality: Narcissistic Personality Questionnaire for Children -Revised (NPQC-R)

Background

Definitive features of narcissism include a sense of grandiosity and superiority, a sense of entitlement, exploitation of others for personal gain, lack of empathy for others, and an excessive need for admiration from others (Miller et al. 2007). There is a need identified for an appropriate measure of narcissism in non-clinical child and adolescent samples. NPQC-R is a revised version of an earlier version of the same measure. The revision was necessary and resulted in a measure that is stronger psychometrically.

Abstract

Using confirmatory factor analysis, support was found for the 2-factor structure of the 12-item NPQC-R using two independent adolescent school-based samples (n=479 and n=470). The 2-factor NPQC-R model (i.e., Superiority, Exploitativeness) showed a better fit in both adolescent samples than alternative models. There was also support for NPQC-R’s invariance across gender and age. The NPQC-R was found to have reasonable internal consistency estimates, test–retest reliability estimates, and adequate convergent and discriminant validity estimates. Collectively, these results support the utility of the NPQC-R as a measure of narcissism in children and adolescents.

Scales and Subscales

The NPQC-R consists of 12 items with 2 factors/subscales, superiority (6 items) and exploitativeness (6 items). The measure uses a 5-point Likert scale.

Reference

Miller, J. D., Campbell, W. K., & Pilkonis, P. A. (2007). Narcissistic personality disorder: relations with distress and functional impairment. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 48,               170–177.
Citation

Ang, R. P., & Raine, A. (2009). Reliability, validity, and invariance of the Narcissistic Personality Questionnaire for Children-Revised (NPQC-R). Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 31, 143-151. doi: 10.1007/s10862-008-9112-2