Mark R. Lukowitsky

Albany Medical College | AMC · Department of Psychiatry

Background: Screening Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) was developed as an integrated and comprehensive public health approach that includes early screening and intervention to address substance use in a variety of health care settings. Research suggests that SBIRT is effective in reducing substance use in individuals whose use pla...

In our article “Evidence for the Criterion Validity and Clinical Utility of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory” (2012), we provided incorrect values for the rcontrast-cv coefficients we presented in Table 1. In the current report, we provide correct rcontrast-cv values in Table 1 and discuss the implications of our updated results, particularly...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has recently begun to fund programs that train medical residents on how to utilize an evidence-based validated system known as Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for providing early detection and brief treatment of unhealthy substance use. This pape...

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), an evidence-based validated system for providing early detection and brief treatment of substance use disorders, has been widely used in the training of medical residents across specialties at a number of sites. This paper investigates the effectiveness of SBIRT training during short...

The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) is a self-report instrument that assesses personality, and it was developed by Auke Tellegen (b. 1930) and colleagues over a period of 10 years using an exploratory approach to test construction. It consists of 276 mostly true-false items measuring a range of dispositions via 11 primary trait sca...

Narcissism research is poorly calibrated across fields of study in part due to confusion over how to integrate normal and pathological descriptions of narcissism. We argue that pathological and normal narcissism can be integrated in a single model that organizes around self-regulation mechanisms. We present theoretical and empirical support for thi...

Impairments in self and interpersonal functioning are core features of personality pathology. Clinical theory and research indicate that compromised self-awareness and distorted interpersonal perceptions are particularly prominent in individuals exhibiting pathological narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Therefore we conducted a study...

In this study, the authors evaluated aspects of criterion validity and clinical utility of the grandiosity and vulnerability components of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) using two undergraduate samples (N = 299 and 500). Criterion validity was assessed by evaluating the correlations of narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerab...

Previous research on aversive interpersonal behavior has provided limited links between interpersonal sensitivities and comprehensive models of personality and social behavior. Study 1 (N = 1,336) of this article demonstrated that interpersonal sensitivities can be mapped onto the interpersonal circumplex and that people generally find others' beha...

This study sought to empirically examine some assumptions of contemporary psychoanalytic, attachment, and interpersonal personality theories by linking characteristics of mental representations of self and others (parents) to current levels of interpersonal adjustment in a nonclinical sample. To evaluate the mental representations of self and other...

The Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) is a recently developed multidimensional inventory for the assessment of pathological narcissism. The authors describe and report the results of two studies that investigate the higher order factor structure and gender invariance of the PNI. The results of the first study indicate that the PNI has a highe...

revious research on aversive interpersonal behavior has provided limited links between interpersonal sensitivities and comprehensive models of personality and social behavior. Study 1 (N = 1,336) of this article demonstrated that interpersonal sensitivities can be mapped onto the interpersonal circumplex and that people generally find others' behav...

We review the literature on pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and describe a significant criterion problem related to four inconsistencies in phenotypic descriptions and taxonomic models across clinical theory, research, and practice; psychiatric diagnosis; and social/personality psychology. This impedes scientific...

Advances in personality consistency and person–situation integration hold immense promise to forge a more unified psychological science, including greater synthesis of personality, social, and clinical psychology. The two goals of this essay are to highlight that (a) this emerging integration is capable of providing new approaches to describing and...

The purpose of the current study was to identify enduring dispositions as potential points of contact between social and clinical psychology, investigate trends in their use in clinical research over time, and evaluate their applicability to the social-clinical interface. In light of the "emerging symbiosis" between social and personality psycholog...