Of Tails and Their Dogs: A Critical View of the Measurement of Trait Narcissism in Social-Personality Research

The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 141-145

  Brown, Ryan P ^a   Tamborski, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circularity in scale development; Critical assumptions; Narcissistic Personality Inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862826015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118093108.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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