The Dark Triad and Facebook surveillance: How Machiavellianism, psychopathy, but not narcissism predict using Facebook to spy on others

Be Aware Not Reactive: Testing a Mediated-Moderation Model of Dark Triad and Perceived Victimization via Self-Regulatory Approach

“…Further, our results show that Machiavellianism is positively linked to perceived victimization, indicating that individuals with this kind of personality trait lack moral values to collaborate with other employees. These results provide further support to previous studies and propose that leaders use their dirty cleaver to appeal to the emotions of subordinates in an organization in order to achieve their parochial interest, consistent with Stiff (2019). Moreover, the relationship between psychopathy and perceived victimization is also found to be highly significant, revealing that psychopathic personalities have aggressive behavioral tendencies.…”

“…Corroborating this, researchers have verified that unfavorable feedback and confrontation force supervisors to practice abusive supervision (Long and Christian, 2015). Machiavellianism, another DT trait, is a cluster of specific features such as cynicism, brutality, lack of moral beliefs, argentic goals, manipulation, and exploitation (Stiff, 2019). In view of these features and the social exchange theory, it is considered that Machiavellian leaders tend to use abusive supervision to achieve vested interests (Kiazad et al, 2010).…”

“…Narcissism is characterized by self-importance, self-love, flattery, and fantasies of controlling others to gain success and admiration. Machiavellianism is characterized by clever manipulation of others and placing oneself before moral standards/principles (Stiff, 2019). Studies indicated psychopathy as the worst of all the DT traits that is characterized by lacking feelings of regret or guilt in sabotaging others and having no empathy or concern for anyone (O'Boyle et al, 2012).…”

“…Psychopathic leaders are, thus, likely to victimize their subordinates for multiple gains (Murphy et al, 2017). Machiavellians are exploiters who selfishly manipulate others to gain their objectives (Stiff, 2019). Scholars pair Machiavellianism with a high degree of control and callousness (Kiazad et al, 2010).…”

Exploring the Influence of Social Media Information on Interpersonal Trust in New Virtual Work Partners

“…Recent research has shown that the practice of scrutinizing social media profiles to obtain information about individuals has become commonplace among not only friends and family members but also among professionals or even strangers [1,2]. This practice is facilitated by the significant usage of social media platforms by the world's population; as of the second quarter of 2019, Statista [3] shows that more than 2.4 billion people hold an active account in Facebook.…”