How Narcissistic are You?
Haven’t posted anything for a while, I’m wrapped up in the warm embrace of procrastination. Thought this was interesting though and an easy post. Take the online Narcissism test.
Despite all evidence to the contrary I only scored a 4. If you score greater than 20 you probably have a mirror in your pocket right now.
Some quiz answering music for you….
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0 Responses to “How Narcissistic are You?”
6 for me
I wonder if we might find a trend among the science types around here. I’d be interested to know if anyone scores highly.
Nuts. I got 2.
hhmm, not sure if you should be worried about that or not. Can’t find any info on the significance of low scores.
Another 4. I wonder if it’s “New Zealander Syndrome” or sciencey thing?
@David, good question! the averages I found (about 17) were for american subjects. I wonder if there are stats on effect of nationality, Interesting.
Found this study that might answer some questions. Haven’t read it fully yet but here’s the abstract:
The present investigation examined associations among narcissism, age, ethnicity, world region,
and gender, using a large (n ¼ 3445) sample of participants representing several different
world regions and ethnicities. The results suggest that (1) reported narcissism declines in older
participants, (2) consistent with previous findings, males report being more narcissistic than
females, (3) that ethnic differences in reported narcissism are generally comparable to those
found in the self-esteem literature, and (4) that world region appears to exert influence on narcissism,
with participants from more individualistic societies reporting more narcissism. The
results are discussed in terms of how age and culture might impact narcissism and how future
research might address this topic.
Personally, the questions seem too weak to me. There are some that I can’t answer properly as the correct answer is more nuanced than the two extremes on offer. It’s also too easy to spot what questions will lower your score! 🙂
I get 2-6(+) depending on how I answer the questions that don’t have appropriate responses.
It might differ in countries that are more entrepreneurial?
From the study:
A set of comparisons revealed that
both White participants (M = 14:8; SD = 6:8) and Asian participants
(M = 14:9; SD = 6:5) reported being slightly, but significantly (p’s < .05) less narcissistic
than both Black participants (M = 16:7; SD = 6:5) and Hispanic participants
(M = 16:5; SD = 6:4).
less variation than I expected, comparitively large SDs though.
There you go then: I’m ‘older’ & also female – low score explained 🙂
@Alison, extrapolating wildly I calculate your narcissism corrected age at 110-114 yrs.
Lookin’ good.