COVID-19 prevention behaviour is differentially motivated by primary psychopathy, grandiose narcissism and vulnerable Dark Triad traits

Blanchard, Alyson; Keenan, Gregory S.; Heym, Nadja; Sumich, Alexander

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2022.112060

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“…Moreover, antisocial facets of psychopathy were associated with higher conspiracist ideation (Kay, 2021). Narcissism also predicted an increased belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories (Blanchard et al, 2023;Gligorić et al, 2021;Sternisko et al, 2021) and intentional dissemination of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories (Sternisko et al, 2021). Interestingly, Cichocka and colleagues (2016; suggested that people with high narcissism endorse conspiracy theories due to their heightened paranoia, which makes them believe that others are intentionally malicious.…”

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Dark Triad and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the role of conspiracy beliefs and risk perception

2023

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prominent health threats (WHO, 2020). Past research suggested that vaccine hesitancy depends on different causes, including demographics, knowledge about the virus and vaccine, past infection, religious and political interests as well as individual dispositions, such as personality (e.g., Murphy et al., 2021; Shachman et al., 2021). This latter has been widely conceptualised as a hard-core and relatively stable variable involving biological, social (i.e., norms, values, roles, and authority), and intrapsychic factors determining, causing, and explaining people's behaviours (DeYoung, 2010;Dwairy, 2002), including protective practices against the COVID-19 (Reagu et al., 2023). For instance, Abdelrahman (2022) found that Conscientiousness and Neuroticism were positively associated, while Agreeableness was negatively related to personal hygiene practices and social distancing. It is worth noting that research on the association between personality and healthy behaviours against COVID-19 has been overwhelmed by the Big Five model (Reagu et al., 2023;Abdelrahman, 2022), whereas little empirical evidence has been collected on other personality taxonomies, such as the Dark Triad (DT). This personality model reflects a constellation of three theoretically distinctive yet interconnected personality traits (i.e., psychopathy,

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Dark Triad and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the role of conspiracy beliefs and risk perception

2023

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“…callousness, COVID-19, impulsivity, motivation, personality, prevention, psychopathy Clemente, 2021;Gogola et al, 2021;Hardin et al, 2021;Hughes & Machan, 2021;Montiero et al, 2022;Nowak et al, 2020;Prichard & Turner, 2023;Triberti et al, 2021). Other studies using a two-factor (primary and secondary) assessment of psychopathy found mixed evidence of either no association of prevention behavior with primary and secondary psychopathy or negative associations with both (Blanchard et al, 2023;Zajenkowski et al, 2020). Of the two major theoretical perspectives on psychopathy, studies relying on a triarchic assessment of psychopathic traits have found negative associations between prevention behavior and disinhibition (Kypta-Vivanco & Fairchild, 2022), boldness (Paiva et al, 2021), or all three triarchic traits (Blagov, 2021).…”

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Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior

Tacke,

Lishner,

Knepple Carney

et al. 2023

Social & Personality Psych

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Two direct replication studies were conducted to investigate the associations of psychopathic traits with engagement in COVID‐19 prevention behavior and motivational reasons for engaging in such behavior. College undergraduate students completed two self‐report measures of psychopathic traits based on the four‐factor conceptualization of psychopathy (callous affect, manipulative tendency, erratic lifestyle, criminal tendency) and the triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy (meanness, disinhibition, boldness). Participants then reported the degree to which they engaged in COVID‐19 prevention behavior currently and in the past, and reported their self‐focused and other‐focused motivational reasons for doing so. Results aggregated across both studies (N = 292) revealed that traits reflecting emotional callousness and impulsivity independently predicted lower levels of other‐focused reasons for engaging in prevention behavior. Moreover, controlling for other‐focused reasons appreciably reduced negative associations of emotional callousness and impulsivity with prevention behavior. The results provide insight into points of convergence in conceptualization and measurement of psychopathy from multiple theoretical perspectives and the importance of considering the impact of divisive personality traits on motivation to protect others during pandemics.

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Identification of the Core Characteristics of Vulnerable/Hypersensitive Narcissism and its Association with the Dark Triad in a Large International Sample: A Network Analysis Study

Abdelrahman,

Ahmed,

Tayim

et al. 2024

Psychiatr Q

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COVID-19 prevention behaviour is differentially motivated by primary psychopathy, grandiose narcissism and vulnerable Dark Triad traits

Cited by 6 publications

References 49 publications

Dark Triad and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the role of conspiracy beliefs and risk perception

Dark Triad and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the role of conspiracy beliefs and risk perception

Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior

Identification of the Core Characteristics of Vulnerable/Hypersensitive Narcissism and its Association with the Dark Triad in a Large International Sample: A Network Analysis Study

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