Question

Imagine you are examining the relationship of the narcissistic personality inventory (NPI) with the following constructs: self-esteem, empathy, extroversion, hostility, and intelligence - expected relationships among these constructs and the NPI are reported in the slideset. Further, you compare the NPI to another scale of narcissism using clinical assessment. You find the following correlations among these constructs.

Correlations of NPI with:
Self-esteem: .56
Empathy: -.43
Extroversion: .65
Hostility: .78
Intelligence: .10
Clinical assessment narcissism: .85
Select the answer below that appropriately describes evidence for convergent and discriminant validity.
A. Poor convergent validity, poor discriminant validity
B.Good convergent validity, good discriminant validity
C.Poor convergent validity, high method-specific bias
D.Good convergent validity, poor discriminant validity

Answer 1

The correct answer is B.

Explanation:

Thought the created NPI test have a short number of criteria, we can observe in the test some convergence with the Clinical assessment narcissism. The high score in the clinical test indicates a narcissist behavior. That characteristics matches with the items contained in the NPI constructs, describing a very narcissistic self-description .