The Complicated Relationship Between the Dark Triad and Emotional Intelligence: A Systematic Review

Walker, Sharyn M.; Double, Kit S.; Birney, Damian P.

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“…The authors emphasize that grandiose and vulnerable narcissism should be considered separately rather than combined into a total score because grandiose narcissism is positively related to EI, while vulnerable narcissism negatively related to EI. Also, Walker et al, (2021) indicate that primary psychopathy is positively related to EI but secondary psychopathy is negatively related to EI. Therefore, future empirical research on the relationship between the dark traits and EI should be conducted focusing on facet-level analysis.…”

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“…Next, the present study employed short self-report measures of the Dark Triad and emotional intelligence, which could have affected socially desirable responsiveness in an effort to present themselves in a favorable light. Moreover, associations between EI and dark triad measures are complex and different on the facet level (Walker et al, 2021). The authors emphasize that grandiose and vulnerable narcissism should be considered separately rather than combined into a total score because grandiose narcissism is positively related to EI, while vulnerable narcissism negatively related to EI.…”

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Effect of the Dark Tetrad on Emotional Intelligence

Sokić¹

2022

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The main aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between Dark Tetrad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy and sadism) and ability emotional intelligence dimensions – self-emotion appraisal, others’ emotion appraisal, use of emotion and regulation of emotion. The Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, Short Dark Triad and Assessment of Sadistic Personality were applied to a sample of 322 participants from the general population (63% women) of Croatia. Results showed that both psychopathy and sadism had negative relations with emotional intelligence. Sadism showed significant effects on self-emotion appraisal, others’ emotion appraisal, and use of emotion dimensions, while psychopathy showed significant effect on regulation of emotion. Machiavellianism negatively correlated to a weaker degree with self-emotion appraisal and others’ emotion appraisal, but it showed no significant effects on emotional intelligence dimensions in regression analysis. Narcissism showed positive effects on EI as a whole, use of emotion and self-emotion appraisal. The results highlighted the importance of the dark traits in the explanation of emotional intelligence and showed that the dark traits are differently associated with emotional intelligence dimensions.

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Effect of the Dark Tetrad on Emotional Intelligence

Sokić¹

2022

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“…Therefore, employers should consider providing emotional intelligence training as a tool of improving self-esteem to their employees, which can sequentially improve the organizational culture of respect for others. Especially, emotional intelligence training is much needed for employees with higher covert (vulnerable) narcissism, given the fact that vulnerable narcissism is negatively associated with emotional intelligence and it was also associated with higher use of expressive suppression (as a response modulation/response-focused process) (for reviews see Walker et al, 2021Walker et al, , 2022. In other words, employers should invest more time, money, and effort to make emotional intelligence training successful because it may be more difficult to improve the emotional intelligence of employees with high covert narcissism due to their lower capacity of emotional regulation.…”

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The effect of covert narcissism on workplace incivility: The mediating role of self-esteem and norms for respect

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Morais

2022

Curr Psychol

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There has been an abundance of research on narcissism in the workplace. However, most research has focused on the overt (grandiosity) form of narcissism, as well as the effect of narcissism on uncivil behaviors of employees; research focusing directly on the effect of covert (vulnerability) narcissism on the employees’ experience of workplace incivility is lacking. The present research examined whether the personality trait (covert narcissism) of employees affects their experience of incivility considering two potential explanatory variables: self-esteem and perceived norms for respect. A total of 150 participants completed an online questionnaire, which consisted of four well-known measures: the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale, the Rosenberg Self-esteem scale, the Perceived Norms for Respect, and the Workplace Incivility Scale. The results showed that employees with higher levels of covert narcissism are likely to have greater experiences of workplace incivility through the mediating role of perceived norms for respect. Although the relationship was not explained through the mediating role of self-esteem, it was instead observed that self-esteem and perceived norms for respect jointly affect employees’ experience of incivility at work. These findings broaden our understanding of workplace incivility by simultaneously considering the influences of personality traits, self-esteem, and workplace norms.

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“…EI can be assessed as an ability (Mestre et al, 2016) or as a set of personality traits, typically self-rated (Walker et al, 2021). Ability EI is measured with objective tasks that require knowledge and processing of emotional information.…”

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Emotionally intelligent people show more flexible regulation of emotions in daily life.

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MacCann³

2022

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Emotion regulation strategies have been characterized as adaptive or maladaptive; however, the ability to switch strategies to best suit the situation (regulatory flexibility and adaptability) underlies effective emotion regulation. Emotional intelligence may be a key capacity that enables flexible emotion regulation. We use experience sampling data from 165 participants to test whether emotional intelligence abilities (emotion understanding and management) predict variability in four emotion regulation strategies. Results show that both the emotion understanding and emotion management branches of emotional intelligence significantly relate to between-strategy variability (with moderate effect sizes), but only emotion understanding significantly predicts within-strategy variability. These findings support the hypothesis that emotional intelligence is an important predictor of the ability to flexibly vary emotion regulation depending on the situation.

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The Complicated Relationship Between the Dark Triad and Emotional Intelligence: A Systematic Review

Cited by 20 publications

References 143 publications

Effect of the Dark Tetrad on Emotional Intelligence

Effect of the Dark Tetrad on Emotional Intelligence

The effect of covert narcissism on workplace incivility: The mediating role of self-esteem and norms for respect

Emotionally intelligent people show more flexible regulation of emotions in daily life.

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