Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Information taken from the DSM-IV and the textbook Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders
- 1._______ is a pervasive pattern or grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy.
- A.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- B.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
- C.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
- 2.NPD usually begins by early adulthood
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Individuals with NPD have a grandiose sense of the importance of others.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Individuals with NPD overestimate their abilities and inflate their accomplishments.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Individuals with NPD often have an inflated judgment of their own accomplishments and an ___________ of the contributions of others.
- A.
Underestimation
- B.
Overestimation
- 6.Individuals with NPD are often preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Individuals with NPD compare themselves _____________ with famous or privileged people.
- A.
Unfavorably
- B.
Favorably
- 8.Individuals with NPD believe that they are _______ and expect others to recognize them as such.
- A.
Shy, scared, or worried
- B.
Superior, special, or unique
- C.
Beautiful, powerful, seductive
- 9.Individuals with NPD generally require moderate admiration.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Individuals with NPD have a very fragile self-esteem.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.A sense of ________ is evident in these individuals’ unreasonable expectation of especially favorable treatment.
- A.
Happiness
- B.
Love
- C.
Entitlement
- 12.Individuals with NPD expect to be catered to and are puzzled or furious when this does not happen.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Individuals with NPD expect to be given whatever they want or feel they need, unless it negatively affects other people.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Individuals with NPD generally have a ________ of empathy and have _______ recognizing the desires, subjective experiences, and feelings of others.
- A.
High Amount; Difficulty
- B.
Lack; Difficulty
- C.
Lack; Can Easily
- 15.Individuals with NPD often know their remarks towards others are hurtful, but yet do not care.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.Those who relate to individuals with NPD typically find an emotional _______ and ______ of reciprocal interest.
- A.
Coldness; Lack
- B.
Warmth; Large Amount
- C.
Coldness; Large Amount
- 17.Individuals with NPD are often envious of others or believe that others are envious of them.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.Individuals with NPD may value the contributions of others, particularly when those individuals have received acknowledgement or praise for their accomplishments.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.Characteristics of an individual with NPD entail _________.
- A.
Arrogant
- B.
Nervous
- C.
Haughty
- D.
Seductive
- 20.Individuals with NPD often display ___________ attitudes.
- A.
Snobbish
- B.
Disdainful
- C.
Patronizing
- 21.Criticism from others is typically brushed off and does not affect an individual with NPD.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.Interpersonal relationships are typically _______ due to problems derived from entitlement, the need for admiration, and the relative disregard for the sensitivities of _______.
- A.
Impaired; Themselves
- B.
Healthy; Others
- C.
Impaired; Others
- 23.Vocational functioning can be very low, due to an unwillingness to take a risk in competitive or other situations in which defeat is possible.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.Individuals with NPD may have sustained feelings of shame or humiliation and the attendant self-criticism may be associated with social withdrawal, _________ ________, and Dysthymic or Major Depressive Disorder.
- A.
Depressed Mood
- B.
Anorexia Nervosa
- C.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
- 25.Sustained periods of grandiosity may be associated with a _______ _________.
- A.
Hypermanic Mood
- B.
Hypomanic Mood
- C.
Depressed Mood
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