Dark personality traits (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Sadism) have been associated with aversive, unethical, and criminal conduct. Concise measurement tools such as the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) are popular, because they lend themselves as screening instruments. As such, the scores on...
Mid-level personality traits, such as mate-retention strategies (Study 1) were best explained by a three-measure model, whereas the higher-order trait of sociosexuality (Study 2), were best explained by a single, latent-factor model. When considering mid-level measurement in personality, the ...
Therefore, the main aim of this manuscript was to present a preliminary verification of the relations between socially aversive personality traits (the Dark Triad of personality) and health-oriented behaviors in university students. 2. Materials and Methods 2.1. Study Group The study involved 143 hea...
and self-transcendent unity (i.e., harmony in life) that is appreciated as part of the good life in many ancient and modern cultures. Moreover, most studies use the Big Five Model to understand which personality traits predict subjective well-being. Here, I examine the predictive power of ...
Recent research by Williams and Paulhus (2002) confirmed that the SRP has the same four-factor solution as the Psychopathy Check List (Hare, 1991), which is the gold standard in the measurement of psychopathy. Moreover, SRP scores predict anti-social behavior in forensic and non-forensic ...
First, there are issues around the nature of the evidence and second, measurement and diagnostic issues relating to the validity of the tools/measures used (Lynam & Widiger, 2007). That is, do observed differences indicate a gender bias in the diagnosis or a true difference in the ...
was measured using a 9-item scale that we developed from reviewing the literature on expert opinion about PCE. Sample items included “In our society PCE is a step in the right direction of development”, “PCE should be incorporated in workplace situations”. The measurement reflects a positiv...
Research has focused mainly on the bright sides of personality traits and their positive effects on the firm (Miller2015; Palmer et al.2019b) to the point that so-called ‘dark’ traits are relatively understudied and misunderstood (Furtner et al.2017; Palmer et al.2019b,2020). However, p...
The Dark Triad offers measurement and predictive validity of egotistic and anti-social dispositions, including the factors Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. Based on the well established link between personality traits and values, this study proposes that the Dark Triad can be used to under...
The Dark Factor of Personality is often considered an additional factor beyond the five major personality traits, which are neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The Dark Factor of Personality can be assessed through various measurement tools, such as the "Dark Triad...