title: Narcissism and causal attribution.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Clinic, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36688, USA.
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Ladd
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Welsh
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Vitulli
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Labbé
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Law
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology