Who wrote this survey?
Eric Krock
Is the survey author a mental health professional? Does he have any license, formal training, or certifications?
No.
Did mental health professionals participate in developing the survey? Has the survey been reviewed by mental health professionals?
No.
Wouldn’t it be preferable for mental health professionals to design this survey?
Yes. However, because of the so-called Goldwater Rule, mental health professionals generally refrain from making public comments about the mental health, potential diagnoses, or personality structure of political candidates. Ethics rules also discourage them from helping laypeople make such evaluations themselves or to some extent from making instruments for use by laypeople. Therefore, we laypeople, who must evaluate the fitness for office of political candidates, are on our own in evaluating all aspects of candidates’ personality, psychology, mental health, and other factors that may influence a person’s suitability for office.
Can this survey be used to diagnose any mental health condition? Does a high value mean that someone has Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
No.
Why not use a standard instrument like the Narcissistic Personality Inventory?
The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) is a forty-question forced-choice instrument that is given to a subject so that investigators can assess the subject’s level of narcissism by scoring the responses. Political candidates are not known for volunteering to be examined by mental health professionals (although this would be a good idea among candidates for high office!) and therefore the NPI cannot be used to enable voters to assess a political candidate’s degree of narcissism through observation of their public behaviors.
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