Civic Engagement and Personality: Associations with the Big Five and the Dark Triad

Rico-Bordera, Pilar; Rodríguez, José Antonio Piqueras; Soto‐Sanz, Victoria; Rodríguez-Jiménez, Tiscar; Marzo, Juan C.; Galán, Manuel; Piñeda, David

doi:10.3390/ijerph20032126

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“…In fact, future research could explore the associations between IH, civic engagement, and narcissism, given that R/S leaders may be susceptible to narcissism and the finding that greater IH corresponded to an indicator of greater vulnerable narcissism (Jankowski et al, 2019). In addition, Rico-Bordera et al (2023) found a positive association between civic engagement and grandiose narcissism, suggesting a self-enhancement motive rather than the other-oriented motivation for activism.…”

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Longitudinal processes among humility, social justice activism, transcendence, and well-being

Jankowski,

Sandage,

Wang

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionExisting research shows positive associations between humility and well-being, and between civic engagement and well-being. Rarely have humility, civic engagement, and well-being been examined together. We build off of previous cross-sectional findings and a prior longitudinal study that used three waves of data and found significant positive bivariate correlations between humility and the presence of life purpose across time points.MethodsExtending these previous findings, we used six waves of data obtained from graduate students at 18 seminaries across North America (N = 574; Mage = 31.54; 46.7% female; 65.3% White) to explore the dynamic associations among humility and life purpose, along with horizontal transcendence (an indicator of the attitudinal dimension of civic engagement) and social justice activism (an indicator for the behavioral dimension). We explored reciprocal short-run processes and dynamic long-run effects using a general cross-lagged panel model.Results and discussionWe found robust evidence for a reciprocal influence between the presence of life purpose and horizontal transcendence, and long-run effects for initial levels of life purpose to influence later levels of horizontal transcendence. We also found long-run effects for the influence of initial levels of life purpose on later levels of humility, and initial levels of social justice activism on later levels of horizontal transcendence. Implications center on the use of the findings for planning future one-time life purpose and social justice interventions to affect changes in humility and horizontal transcendence.

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Longitudinal processes among humility, social justice activism, transcendence, and well-being

Jankowski,

Sandage,

Wang

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Assessing the dark personality traits with observer reports: A meta‐analysis of inter‐rater agreement on the Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad traits

Rico‐Bordera,

Pineda,

Galán

et al. 2024

Personality & Mental Health

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Assessing dark personality traits with self‐reports may be hampered by biases such as socially desirable responding. To address this, observer reports could be an effective complement or alternative to self‐reports. This meta‐analysis aimed to investigate the correlations of observer reports of the Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad traits with these traits' self‐reports. A comprehensive search in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and PsycINFO yielded 24 studies that met the inclusion criteria (with 32 effect sizes) and included the assessment of at least one of the dark traits. Results showed positive self‐observer correlations of medium‐high magnitude for psychopathy (r = 0.47) and of medium magnitude for narcissism and Machiavellianism (respectively, r = 0.44 and 0.41). In addition, for Machiavellianism and psychopathy, it was shown that the better acquainted the observer and the observed, the higher the self‐observer correlations. For sadism, no results could be obtained because only one study included the assessment of this trait. This is the first meta‐analysis of inter‐rater agreement in assessing the Dark Tetrad. The findings suggest that observer reports could be a supplement or even be alternatives to self‐reports when assessing the Dark Tetrad traits.

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The Connection Between Dark Traits and Emotional Intelligence: A Multistudy Person‐Centered Approach

Rico‐Bordera,

Piqueras,

Soto‐Sanz

et al. 2024

Journal of Personality

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ObjectiveSeveral studies have analyzed the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and dark personality, but the results are inconclusive. One study tested correlations between traits that may underlie a person‐centered profile of “dark EI.” Our study aimed to replicate and extend that research, identifying profiles in Spaniards and examining the differences between the profiles based on different variables of interest.MethodTwo studies were designed, the first one (N = 1241) focused on trait EI and the Dark Triad, and the second one expanding the previous (N = 392) focusing on ability EI and the Dark Tetrad.ResultsThree profiles were obtained in both studies: nondark and non‐EI profile, dark profile, and average narcissistic and high EI profile. The latter showed the highest self‐esteem, strengths, well‐being, and civic engagement, and the lowest psychological difficulties and personal distress.ConclusionsOur results reinforced the findings of the study we replicated, not supporting the presence of dark EI, but also not supporting the presence of high EI with very low levels of dark traits. These results have implications when designing preventive actions to improve emotional education.

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Civic Engagement and Personality: Associations with the Big Five and the Dark Triad

Cited by 4 publications

References 60 publications

Longitudinal processes among humility, social justice activism, transcendence, and well-being

Longitudinal processes among humility, social justice activism, transcendence, and well-being

Assessing the dark personality traits with observer reports: A meta‐analysis of inter‐rater agreement on the Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad traits

The Connection Between Dark Traits and Emotional Intelligence: A Multistudy Person‐Centered Approach

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