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DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12952 on 2018-09-27 at 11:37:42 Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-27T16:47:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 CRUZ-THESIS-2018.pdf: 1191930 bytes, checksum: 91023bf2118a57b869e0705642b7a42d (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4208 bytes, checksum: e689999a59a9d9d5ba1f3d61642a359b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-20 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 107933 Lift date: 2020-09-27T16:47:41Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 107933 on 2020-09-28T09:15:25Z. application/pdf Chang, Hua-Hua Culpepper, Steven Cruz, Alvaro 2018-09-27T16:47:37Z 2018-09-27T16:47:37Z 2020-09-28T09:15:25Z 2018-07-20 2018-08 The purpose of this thesis is twofold: investigate narcissism from a personality measurement perspective and explore the accuracy of two item selection methods in a Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) paradigm, Fisher Information and Kullback-Leibler Information. A dataset containing roughly eleven thousand responses to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) is analyzed and preliminary results used to conduct simulation studies to compare estimation accuracy between CATs and traditional IRT tests. The results are discussed as are the potential benefits and shortcomings of shifting the NPI to an IRT framework. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2020-08-01 The student, Alvaro Cruz, accepted the attached license on 2018-07-20 at 12:39. The student, Alvaro Cruz, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-07-20 at 12:39. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-07-20 at 15:11. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/101832 en Copyright 2018 Alvaro Cruz Measurement, Item Response Theory, Narcissism Item response theory and computerized adaptive test approaches to the narcissistic personality inventory text text Psychology Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.