HSNS

Please answer the following questions by deciding to what extent each item is characteristic of your feelings and behavior. Fill in the blank next to each item by choosing a number from the scale printed below.
  1 = very uncharacteristic or untrue, strongly disagree
2 = uncharacteristic
3 = neutral
4 = characteristic
5 = very characteristic or true, strongly agree

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1. I can become entirely absorbed in thinking about my personal affairs, my health, my cares or my relations to others.
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2. My feelings are easily hurt by ridicule or the slighting remarks of others.
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3. When I enter a room I often become self-conscious and feel that the eyes of others are upon me.
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4. I dislike sharing the credit of an achievement with others.
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5. I feel that I have enough on my hands without worrying about other people's troubles.
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6. I feel that I am temperamentally different from most people.
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7. I often interpret the remarks of others in a personal way.
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8. I easily become wrapped up in my own interests and forget the existence of others.
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9. I dislike being with a group unless I know that I am appreciated by at least one of those present.
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10. I am secretly "put out" or annoyed when other people come to me with their troubles, asking me for my time and sympathy.

 

Abstract:

A new measure of hypersensitive narcissism was derived by correlating the items of H. A. Murray's (1938) Narcissism Scale with an MMPI-based composite measure of covert narcissism. In three samples of college students (total N = 303), 10 items formed a reliable measure: the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale (HSNS). The new HSNS and the MMPI-based composite showed similar patterns of correlations with the Big Five Inventory, and both measures correlated near zero with the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, which assesses overt narcissism. Results support P. Wink's (1991) distinction between covert and overt narcissistic tendencies in the normal range of individual differences and suggest that it would be beneficial for personality researchers to measure both types of narcissism in future studies.

Source:

Hendin, H.M., & Cheek, J.M. (1997). Assessing Hypersensitive Narcissism: A Re-examination of Murray's Narcissism Scale. Journal of Research in Personality, 31, 588-599.