Are there such things as “Narcissists” in social psychology? A taxometric analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory

By J. Foster, W. Keith Campbell. 2007

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Social Cognitive Theory: The Antecedents and Effects of Ethical Climate Fit on Organizational Attitudes of Corporate Accounting Professionals—A Reflection of Client Narcissism and Fraud Attitude Risk (2014, background): “Psychologists have differentiated types of narcissism, such as identifying trait narcissism as a stable personality trait found in the general population (Foster and Campbell 2007).”
The relationships among the Big Five Personality factors, self-esteem, narcissism, and sensation-seeking to Chinese University students' uses of social networking sites (SNSs) (2012, background): “In addition, narcissists are also often skilled with dealing with new social settings and with starting new relationships (Foster & Campbell, 2007), which may lead them to have more friends on SNS (H11).”
Egos inflating over time: a cross-temporal meta-analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. (2008, background): “The NPI is not designed as a clinical instrument for measuring narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), and there is no cut-off score for clinically high narcissism ( Foster & Campbell, 2007 ).”
Probing the link between narcissism and gambling: the mediating role of judgment and decision‐making biases (2008, background): “…the individual difference variable of narcissism shares many of the most central characteristics of NPD, such as grandiosity (Miller & Campbell, 2007; Prifitera & Ryan, 1984), but occurs in a relatively dimensional and normally distributed manner across the population (Foster & Campbell, 2007).”
CEO Narcissism and Accounting: A Picture of Profits (2014, background): “That is, narcissistic CEOs are more likely to take measures in order to increase sales and production levels rather than facilitate discretionary accrual manipulations and share repurchases.”
Narcissism and career success: Occupational self-efficacy and career engagement as mediators (2015, background): “Narcissism, in the social-personality view, is a normally distributed trait characterized by a sense of grandiosity, self-love, and inflated self-view (Foster & Campbell, 2007).”
On the Self-regulatory Dynamics Created by the Peculiar Benefits and Costs of Narcissism: A Contextual Reinforcement Model and Examination of Leadership (2009, background): “Second, we acknowledge that narcissism is continuous—there is no narcissism taxon (Foster & Campbell, 2007).”
The Narcissism Spectrum Model: A Synthetic View of Narcissistic Personality (2018, background): “Direct examinations of narcissism also failed to yield any evidence that narcissistic personality disorder is qualitatively different from sub-clinical, yet problematic, expressions of narcissism (Foster & Campbell, 2007; Miller & Campbell, 2010).”
Generational differences in content generation in social media: The roles of the gratifications sought and of narcissism (2013, unknown): “Our principal-components factor analysis clearly confirms four multi-dimensional narcissistic personality types: feeling authoritative or superior, exhibitionistic, exploitative, and often hungry for vanity (Foster & Campbell, 2007) with largely acceptable construct validity and reliability.”
Why do narcissists take more risks? Testing the roles of perceived risks and benefits of risky behaviors. (2009, background): “1 Narcissistic personality is best thought of as a dim (Foster & Campbell, 2007).”
In Pursuit of Greatness: CEO Narcissism, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Firm Performance Variance (2013, unknown): “While extreme narcissism is a diagnosable personality disorder, social science research generally views it as a matter of degree, ranging from mild to severe (Foster and Campbell, 2007; Kets De Vries and Miller, 1985).”
Narcissism and Social Networking Web Sites (2008, background): “Narcissism, as we are examining the construct, refers to a continuous, nontaxonic normal personality variable (Foster & Campbell, 2007).”
Auditor Perceptions of Client Narcissism as a Fraud Attitude Risk Factor (2013, unknown): “Trait narcissism is viewed as a relatively stable personality characteristic that is normally distributed in the adult population (Foster and Campbell 2007; Miller and Campbell 2010).”
Narcissism in organizational contexts (2010, background): “The social-personality literature conceptualizes narcissism as a trait that is normally distributed in the population and for which there is no qualitative cut-off (taxon) for elevated narcissism (Foster & Campbell, 2007).”
Narcissism and stock market investing: Correlates and consequences of cocksure investing (2011, background): “In actuality, most narcissism measures, such as the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI), do not capture a specific group of ‘‘narcissists’’ (Foster & Campbell, 2007).”
Pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. (2010, methodology): “Taxometric evaluation of the NPI in student samples indicated narcissistic traits were best represented dimensionally, and no evidence of taxonicity was found (Foster & Campbell 2007).”