Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory–Short Form (FFNI-SF) Test

People examining how status, ambition, attention, empathy, and criticism shape their relationships can use the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory-Short Form (FFNI-SF) Test to organize these patterns into a personality profile. The FFNI-SF narcissism test suits self-reflection about recurring motives, interpersonal reactions, and sensitivities. Results show which tendencies appear more or less prominent across dimensions.

What This Assessment Explores

Narcissistic traits are multidimensional, so this five-factor narcissism assessment explores self-image, status, relationships, leadership, and criticism. Results group them:

• Grandiose Fantasies, Authoritarianism, Arrogance, Entitlement, Exhibitionism, Need for Recognition, Extraversion, and Grandiose Narcissism (typical bands Low 1-2.4; Moderate 2.5-3.5; High 3.6-5) describe status, dominance, visibility, and leadership.
• Lack of Empathy, Exploitativeness, Antagonism, Manipulativeness, Need for Admiration, Distrust, Shame, Vulnerable Narcissism, Neuroticism, Reactive Anger, and Indifference cover empathy, approval, shame, and anger, with the same 1-5 low/moderate/high bands.
• Sensation Seeking reflects excitement and risk-taking, while Total Score summarizes narcissistic traits across the inventory.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

As a narcissistic personality traits test, the questionnaire uses five ordered response choices, moving from false or untrue through mostly true to completely true, with small wording changes across items. Statements address ambition, leadership, special treatment, using others, criticism, trust, popularity, empathy, shame, anger, and risk. Some items are phrased in opposite directions, so scoring follows the instrument’s keyed meaning rather than assuming every statement adds points in the same way.

The profile is conceptually consistent with FFNI-SF (Sherman et al., 2015), which organizes narcissism through facets related to the Five-Factor Model, and with the broader FFNI framework described by Glover et al. (2012). This relationship supports construct coverage without establishing that this questionnaire is a formally validated adaptation of either instrument.

Higher results generally indicate more of the tendency named by a scale, while the supplied bands are descriptive categories rather than clinical cutoffs. Self-report is influenced by current context, self-awareness, and impression management, so the most useful reading is the pattern across dimensions and situations, not one isolated score.