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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2018 May 21;30(7):978–983. doi: 10.1037/pas0000578

Table 1.

NVS in Relation to Measures of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder

NVS and Vulnerable Narcissism NVS and Grandiose Narcissism NVS and Other Narcissism Measures

Sample 1
(N = 654)
Sample 2
(N = 591)
Sample 3
(N = 368)
Sample 1
(N = 654)
Sample 2
(N = 591)
Sample 3
(N = 368)
Sample 1
(N = 654)
Sample 2
(N = 591)
Sample 3
(N = 368)
HSNS .63* .60* NPI L/A .00 −.13* .12 FFNI–A .39* .27* .20*
FFNI-V .72* .71* .42* NPI G/E −.05 −.01 .15* FFNI–E −.03 −.02 .11
(B)PNI-V .65* .61* .44* NPI E/E .27* .13* .23* FFNI–N .57* .54* .30*
FFNI–G .10 .02 .16* PDQ–N .28*
(B)PNI–G .30* .23* .20* NARQ–R .39* .31*
GNS .05 NARQ–A −.11 .06
NGS −.11*

Note. BPNI = Brief PNI (G = Grandiose, V = Vulnerable), FFNI = Five Factor Narcissism Inventory (V = Vulnerable; G = Grandiose; A = Antagonism; E = Extraversion; N = Neuroticism), HSNS = Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale, NPI = Narcissistic Personality Inventory (L/A = Leadership/Authority, G/E = Grandiose Exhibitionism, E/E = Entitlement/Exploitativeness), PNI = Pathological Narcissism Inventory (G = Grandiose, V = Vulnerable), NGS = Narcissistic Grandiosity Scale, PDQ-N = Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4 Narcissism Scale. The Brief PNI was used in Samples 1 and 3.

*

p < .01