Objectives: The Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) capture individual differences in aversive personality to complement work on other taxonomies, such as the Big Five traits. However, the literature on the Dark Triad traits relies mostly on samples from English-speaking (i.e., Westernized) countries. We broadened the scope of this literature by sampling from a wider array of countries. Method: We drew on data from 49 countries (N = 11,723; 65.8% female; Age Mean = 21.53) to examine how an extensive net of country-level variables in economic status (e.g., Human Development Index), social relations (e.g., gender equality), political orientations (e.g., democracy), and cultural values (e.g., embeddedness) relate to country-level rates of the Dark Triad traits, as well as variance in the magnitude of sex differences in them.

The Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) has garnered intense attention over the past 15 years. We examined the structure of these traits’ measure—the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen (DTDD)—in a sample of 11,488 participants from three W.E.I.R.D. (i.e., North America, Oceania, Western Europe) and five non-W.E.I.R.D. (i.e., Asia, Middle East, non-Western Europe, South America, sub-Saharan Africa) world regions. The results confirmed the measurement invariance of the DTDD across participants’ sex in all world regions, with men scoring higher than women on all traits (except for psychopathy in Asia, where the difference was not significant). We found evidence for metric (and partial scalar) measurement invariance within and between W.E.I.R.D. and non-W.E.I.R.D. world regions. The results generally support the structure of the DTDD.

background This article is focused on the entitlement attitude in an organizational context. Its purpose was to examine the relationship of entitlement and its 3 components (active, passive and revengefulness) with job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on physical and mental health of people and their daily functioning in all areas of life. The aim of the current study was to examine the perceived effects of pandemic on love, social and professional life. In March 2021, an anonymous survey was conducted online among Bulgarian adults including 450 participants. Especially for this study three scales were developed reflecting deterioration of love and social relations and the quality of work life. Their relationships with fear of COVID-19 and perceived stress were investigated as well as the role of some demographic factors. Results indicated that social relations are deteriorating the most, followed by love relations and quality of professional life. Fear of COVID-19 was most strongly associated with negative experiences in social life (r=0.28 p=0.000). Perceived stress was associated moderately and positively with decline of the three life areas (r=0.30, p=0.000). Gender differences were not found in the level of stress and fear, but these variables correlated in a different way with social, love and professional areas in the groups of men and women. Men reported for more negative effects of pandemic on their love relations than women (t=2.14, p=0.03). Love relations also became more problematic for people who are single compared to those who are married or have partners and as well as for respondents who do not have children. Age, education, tenure and place of living did not relate to decline of quality of love, social and professional life.