More or less than the sum of its parts? Mapping the Dark Triad of personality onto a single Dark Core

Bertl, Bianca; Pietschnig, Jakob; Tran, Ulrich S.; Stieger, Stefan; Voracek, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.002

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“…This was done because of the low reliability of psychopathy and because recent research contended that the correlations between the DTP members are substantial, suggesting conceptual redundancy. Thus, researchers suggested that the DTP may best be represented by a single factor instead of three …”

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Dark triad personalities and counterproductive work behaviors among physicians in China

Ying

Cohen

2018

Health Planning & Management

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The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between the dark triad personality (DTP) and organizational and individual counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs), based on the argument that situational variables mediate this relationship. The data were collected at Beijing Children's Hospital, the largest children's hospital in China. Paper and pencil questionnaires were distributed to 200 randomly selected physicians, of whom 168 responded, an 84% response rate. The findings of regression analysis and mediation analysis show a strong relationship between the DTP and CWBs. Of the three traits of the DTP, Machiavellianism was significantly related to both dimensions of CWBs, organizational and interpersonal. The findings also show that the relationship examined here was affected by mediators, particularly organizational commitment and organizational justice, emphasizing the effect of the environment on the behavior of dark personalities. The environment, represented by the mediators, had no effect on narcissists' CWB, and psychological contract breach was the only mediator found to have no mediating effect. The paper concludes with suggestions and recommendations for future research, in particular in different settings.

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Dark triad personalities and counterproductive work behaviors among physicians in China

Ying

Cohen

2018

Health Planning & Management

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“…There have been some attempts made to expand the traits to include everyday sadistic tendencies (Buckels, Jones, & Paulhus, 2013) and spitefulness (Marcus & Zeigler-Hill, 2015). While interesting to consider, there is substantial overlap for sadism and spitefulness with psychopathy, making them difficult to disentangle (Bertl et al, 2017;Jonason, Zeigler-Hill, & Okan, 2017). The most parsimonious model of the dark side of personality seems best.…”

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“…It has been suggested that the Dark Triad traits reflect a meaningful and evolutionary relevant latent construct (Jonason et al, 2009), and idea that has received support from overseas researchers (Bertl, Pietschnig, Tran, Stieger, & Voracek, 2017) and those parsing the shared and unique variance using structural equation modelling in relation to important outcomes like sexual assault (Figueredo et al, 2015;Jonason, Girgis, & Milne-Home, 2017). This has both conceptual and measurement implications.…”

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“…This has both conceptual and measurement implications. It has been suggested that the Dark Triad traits reflect a meaningful and evolutionary relevant latent construct (Jonason et al, 2009), and idea that has received support from overseas researchers (Bertl, Pietschnig, Tran, Stieger, & Voracek, 2017) and those parsing the shared and unique variance using structural equation modelling in relation to important outcomes like sexual assault (Figueredo et al, 2015;Jonason, Girgis, & Milne-Home, 2017). However, recent evidence has also claimed there might not even be three traits but, merely a combined Machiavellianism and psychopathy factor with narcissism standing alone for both the SD3 and the DD measures (Kajonius, Persson, Rosenberg, & Garcia, 2016;Persson, Kajonius, & Garcia, 2017).…”

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A primer on the Dark Triad traits

Koehn

Okan

Jonason

2019

Australian Journal of Psychology

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In this review, we detail three personality traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) that have gained popularity in the last decade as the 'Dark Triad'. These traits are useful to augment research on personality, like the Big Five traits, as they capture individual differences in 'darker' aspects of personality more fully. We briefly review the body of work surrounding these traits, how they are measured, how they can be understood through the exploration of their nomological network, and the role each trait plays in various domains like organisational psychology and interpersonal relationships. We then detail how an evolutionary paradigm can provide a novel and powerful way of understanding these traits. Finally, we explore broadspectrum concerns about the research and thoughts on how one might think about these issues.

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“…Later, Levenson, Kiel and Fitzpatrick (1995) developed an instrument for measuring psychopathy based on a similar conceptualization, wherein Primary Psychopathy represents underlying facets of callousness, manipulativeness, lack of remorse and an inclination to lie. In the extant literature callousness and manipulation have been found to be at the center of the dark core (Bertl, Pietschnig, Tran, Stieger, & Voracek, 2017;Jones & Paulhus, 2009;Jones & Figuerdo, 2013;Marcus, Preszler & Ziegler-Hill, 2018;Paulhus, 2014).…”

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The Antagonistic Dark Core

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2019

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The dark core represents the commonalities across the dark triad (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy). This study contributes to the dark core literature by examining Antagonism as the prime member accounting for the dark core and tests its relative ability in explaining the dark core as compared to other such factors namely, Primary Psychopathy, Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness. A pool of 270 prospective managers (157 males, 113 females, Mage = 25.7 yrs., SDage = 3.2 years) from a leading business school of India were selected for this study. The obtained data was subjected to Hierarchical Linear Regression, Relative Weights Analysis and Commonality Analysis in a bid to flesh out unique and common variance attributed to each predictor for comparing the ability of Antagonism in explaining the dark core in relation to other variables. Antagonism was found to outperform other predictors in accounting for the dark core and explaining variance associated with Narcissism. Honesty-Humility was found to be acting as a suppressor variable, thus increasing the predictive ability of Antagonism and Primary Psychopathy in accounting for the dark core. In short, dark traited people are antagonistic at core.

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More or less than the sum of its parts? Mapping the Dark Triad of personality onto a single Dark Core

Cited by 70 publications

References 26 publications

Dark triad personalities and counterproductive work behaviors among physicians in China

Dark triad personalities and counterproductive work behaviors among physicians in China

A primer on the Dark Triad traits

The Antagonistic Dark Core

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