Narcissism at the crossroads: phenotypic description of pathological narcissism across clinical theory, social/personality psychology, and psychiatric diagnosis.

By N. Cain, Aaron L. Pincus, Emily B. Ansell. Clinical Psychology Review, 2008

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Is research using the narcissistic personality inventory relevant for understanding narcissistic personality disorder (2009, methodology): “Unfortunately, the utility of the NPI for understanding NPD is unknown and significant concerns have been expressed about the usefulness of NPI based research for understanding NPD (e.g., Cain et al., 2008; Trull & McCrae, 2002).”
What Does the Narcissistic Personality Inventory Really Measure? (2011, background): “The vast majority of research in social/personality psychology uses various forms of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Hall, 1979) to assess this construct (Cain et al., 2008). However, there are increasing concerns about the conceptual underpinnings and psychometric properties o”
The Dark Triad of Personality: A 10 Year Review (2013, background): “More recently, a measure of pathological narcissism has been created and validated by Pincus et al. (Cain et al., 2008; Pincus et al., 2009).”
The influence of pathological narcissism on emotional and motivational responses to negative events: The roles of visibility and concern about humiliation (2010, background): “Although grandiose and vulnerable narcissism share certain characteristics (Dickinson & Pincus, 2003), our findings are consistent with recent research suggesting that important differences exist between these forms of pathological narcissism (see Cain et al., 2008).”
Interpersonal Dynamics in Personality and Personality Disorders (2018, background): “Specifically, clinical theories tend to emphasize that narcissistic individuals are not just grandiose; they are grandiose as a defence against an inner fragility or vulnerability (Cain et al., 2008; Gabbard, 1989; Kohut, 1971, 1977; Pincus & Wright, in press).”
Exploring the relationship between two forms of narcissism and competitiveness (2011, background): “Despite the empirical support for these two types of narcissism, a recent re- view of the literature by Cain, Pincus, and Ansell (2008) found that research on narcissism is dominated by the use of overt narcissism measures and generally overlooks covert narcissism scales.”
Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: a nomological network analysis. (2011, background): “A second assessment issue relates to whether grandiose narcissism, as measured by the NPI, assesses a construct indicative of pathology (e.g., Cain et al., 2008; Pincus & Lukowitsky, 2010).”
Narcissism assessment in social–personality research: Does the association between narcissism and psychological health result from a confound with self-esteem? (2010, methodology): “Thus, it should not be necessary or desirable to segregate NPI-based research from clinical narcissism research, as has been suggested elsewhere (Cain et al., 2008; Pincus & Lukowitsky, 2010; Pincus et al., 2009).”
Pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. (2010, background): “Cain et al. (2008) identified more than 50 distinct labels describing variability in the expression of pathological narcissism and asserted, “While each individual conceptualization has unique clinical value, neither future classification systems (e.g., DSMV), nor intervention models, are likely to…”
Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature (2011, background): “The relationship between narcissism and Facebook activity may be related to the fact that narcissists have an imbalanced sense of self, fluctuating between grandiosity with regards to explicit agency and low self-esteem concerning implicit communion and vulnerability [63,64].”
Perfectionism and narcissism: A meta-analytic review (2016, background): “…high on narcissistic grandiosity, self-esteem dysregulation triggers both aggression and envy; for people high on narcissistic vulnerability, self-esteem dysregulation triggers profound shame and a deepseated sense of inadequacy (Besser & Priel, 2010; Cain et al., 2008; Pincus & Lukowitsky, 2010).”
Narcissistic admiration and rivalry: disentangling the bright and dark sides of narcissism. (2013, background): “We do not address vulnerable narcissism, which is additionally crucial when investigating pathological forms of narcissism (i.e., narcissistic personality disorders; Cain et al., 2008; Miller & Campbell, 2008; Miller, Hoffman, et al., 2011; Pincus et al., 2009).”