Measuring malevolent character: Data using the Swedish version of Jonason's Dark Triad Dirty Dozen

Abstract

The data include responses to the Swedish version of a brief questionnaire used to operationalize the Dark Triad of malevolent character: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. The data was collected among 342 Swedish university students and white-collar workers (see Garcia et al. (2017) [1]). In this article, we include the Swedish version of Jonason's Dark Triad Dirty Dozen questionnaire. The data is available, SPSS and cvs file, as supplementary material in this article. Additionally, we also provide the scoring key as SPSS syntax file.

The Dark Triad and competitive psychological climate at work: A model of reciprocal relationships in dependence of age and organization change

“…The Dirty Dozen showed high levels of reliability and construct validity in several empirical studies, including tests of discriminant validity between the three Dark Triad sub-traits and in relation to other personality traits (Koehn, Okan, & Jonason, 2018). Moreover, convergent validity with other Dark Triad measures and personality traits, predictive validity for relevant outcomes, and the appropriateness of modelling a common latent Dark Triad factor was shown (e.g., Garcia et al, 2017;Jonason et al, 2011;Jonason & McCain, 2012;Jonason & Webster, 2010;Küfner et al, 2014;Spurk et al, 2015). Besides these positive characteristics of the scale, recent studies also criticise the scale because due to its shortness the single subscales seem to not cover the whole breadth of the underlying Dark Triad sub-traits (e.g., Carter, Campbell, Muncer, & Carter, 2015;Jones & Paulhus, 2014;Maples, Lamkin, & Miller, 2014;Miller et al, 2012).…”

“…Past research applied different approaches to the study of the Dark Triad and merged the three single sub-traits into one overall score, analysed them separately, or modelled the shared variance or common core (McLarnon & Tarraf, 2017;O'Boyle et al, 2012). To solve this discrepancy, a recent conceptual study (McLarnon & Tarraf, 2017) suggested to analyse both the Dark Triad common core (which might reflect malevolency and exploitative tendencies, Garcia, Rosenberg, MacDonald, Räisänen, & Ricciardi, 2017;Jonason, Kavanagh, Webster, & Fitzgerald, 2011;O'Boyle et al, 2012) and its distinct sub-traits separately as such a conceptual bifactor model provides the best description of the Dark Triad and allows for the most comprehensive implications. Building upon these recent conceptual developments in Dark Triad research, we will consider both, the Dark Triad common core and its distinct sub-traits in this study.…”

The Dark Cube: dark character profiles and OCEAN

“…Nonetheless, some of the problems with current Dark Triad research are the unreliable correlations with available models ( Veselka, Schermer & Vernon, 2011 ) and the difficulty on differentiating them from each other ( Garcia & MacDonald, 2017 ). The later probably reflects operationalization problems ( Garcia & Rosenberg, 2016 ; Garcia, MacDonald & Rapp-Ricciardi, 2017 ; Garcia et al, 2017e ; Kajonius et al, 2016 ; Persson, Kajonius & Garcia, 2017a ; Persson, Kajonius & Garcia, 2017b ) that are beyond the scope of the present paper. The former, however, is directly addressed in our study, since the model presented here allows us to conduct analysis of personality as a complex adaptive system–a system that allows the individual to adapt to internal (i.e., different character combinations, which is the focus of our study) and external conditions (e.g., life events and situations) (cf.…”

IRT analyses of the Swedish Dark Triad Dirty Dozen

“…570 individuals ( n males = 326, n females = 242, and 2 unreported), including university students and white-collar workers with an age range between 19 and 65 years, responded to the Swedish version of the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen ( Garcia et al., 2017a , b ).…”

“…The Dark Triad (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy; Paulhus and Williams, 2002 ) can be captured quickly using the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen, which is a 12-item scale designed to measure malevolent character ( Jonason and Webster, 2010 ; Jonason and Luévano, 2013 ; Haddad et al., 2016 ; González et al, 2017 ). Previous studies have established a reliable three factor structure for the original Dark Triad Dirty Dozen English version ( Jonason and Webster, 2010 ) and, among other versions, also for the Swedish one ( Garcia et al., 2017a , b ). Moreover, previous Item Response Theory (IRT) analyses of the original English Dark Triad Dirty Dozen have shown that all three subscales adequately tap into these three dark domains of personality ( Webster and Jonason, 2013 ; see also Kajonius et al., 2016 ).…”