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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Personality Psychology

Background:

  • Narcissism is recognized as a multidimensional construct with agentic, antagonistic, and neurotic facets in adults.
  • Existing research lacks validated instruments for assessing multidimensional narcissism in children.
  • This gap hinders the comprehensive understanding and study of narcissistic traits during childhood development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and validate a novel, multidimensional measure of narcissism for children.
  • To assess the three-factor structure (agentic, antagonistic, neurotic) of narcissism in a pediatric population.
  • To establish the reliability and validity of the new narcissism scale for children aged 8–10 years.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted three studies with child participants aged 8–10 years (total N = 587).
  • Developed and administered a new 12-item scale to measure agentic, antagonistic, and neurotic narcissism.
  • Analyzed the factor structure, reliability (e.g., internal consistency), and validity (correlations with related constructs) of the new measure.

Main Results:

  • The three-factor structure of narcissism (agentic, antagonistic, neurotic) was confirmed in children.
  • The 12-item measure exhibited good reliability and validity.
  • Specific correlations were found: agentic narcissism with self-enhancement and self-esteem; neurotic narcissism with self-esteem; antagonistic narcissism with self-enhancement and self-transcendence.

Conclusions:

  • A reliable and valid 12-item measure for assessing agentic, antagonistic, and neurotic narcissism in children is now available.
  • This instrument addresses the need for tools to study the nuanced structure of narcissism in childhood.
  • Findings support the applicability of the multidimensional narcissism model to pediatric populations.