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This study examined the relationship between scores on narcissistic personality traits and causal attributions to positive and negative events. 119 undergraduate students in psychology as participants completed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory-40, the Attributional Style Questionnaire, and several Self-referencing Closed-ended Vignettes. Analyses indicated that men who scored higher on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory-40 made more internal and stable attributions to positive events and more external and unstable attributions to negative events than did men who scored lower on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory-40. Also scores on the Self-referencing Closed-ended Vignettes correlated significantly and positively with the Attributional Style Questionnaire, providing evidence for the validity of the vignettes.
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Internal-External Control , Narcissism , Personality Inventory/statistics & numerical data , Adolescent , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Psychometrics , Reference Values , Reproducibility of Results , Students/psychologyABSTRACT
The WISC-III and Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT) were administered to 30 delinquents in a county youth center as part of their routine psychological assessment. The P > V discrepancy found in earlier studies of delinquent WISC-R IQs was not found with the WISC-III. However, the Fluid IQs on the Kaufmans' test averaged 11 IQ-points higher than the WISC-III IQs. There was a mean difference of 8.66 points between the KAIT Composite IQ and the WISC-III FSIQ, in favor of the former. These findings suggest KAIT IQs that are significantly higher than WISC-III scores (p < .001). The implications are discussed.
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Intelligence Tests , Juvenile Delinquency , Prisoners , Psychometrics , Adolescent , Humans , Male , Mental Competency/legislation & jurisprudence , Reproducibility of ResultsABSTRACT
As expected, the PPVT and various forms of the Quick Test, all tests of receptive vocabulary, overestimated the three IQs of the WAIS-R, often by more than half a standard deviation for a small sample (N = 30) of psychiatric in-patients. A restricted range of scores may have contributed to spuriously high correlations among the various measures of IQ.
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Brain Damage, Chronic/diagnosis , Intelligence Tests , Neurocognitive Disorders/diagnosis , Wechsler Scales , Adult , Brain Damage, Chronic/psychology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Neurocognitive Disorders/psychology , Psychiatric Department, Hospital , PsychometricsABSTRACT
For 30 patients high correlations among scores on Quick Test forms and between scores on Quick Test forms and WAIS scores are as expected from prior work. Premorbid scores were higher than current scores. Range was restricted (IQs of 50 to 127), variances heterogeneous as expected.
