Conceptualizing the Dark Triad of personality: Links to Social Symptomatology |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Queen’s University, Department of Psychology, 99 University Avenue, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6;2. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;1. University of Kansas, United States;2. Oakland University, United States;3. Sapir Academic College, Israel;1. Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands;2. Department of Developmental Psychopathology, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands;1. Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, 430072 Wuhan, China;2. Institute of Departmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 100875 Beijing, China;3. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, IL 61820, USA |
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| Abstract: | The current study examines the conceptualization of the sub-clinical Dark Triad personality traits (Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and Narcissism; Paulhus & Williams, 2002) by relating them to normal and abnormal personality. Factor analyses using two samples (N1 = 232, N2 = 198) showed the Dark Triad traits clearly aggregated with each other, with Social Symptomatology, and with low agreeableness. More detailed analyses found that sub-clinical psychopathy is related to a core of socially malevolent traits and items that reflect self-reported deviant socialization in childhood, alienation from others, interpersonal problems, and impulsivity. For Machiavellianism, these relationships were apparent at the item level but not at the trait level. Narcissism, however, appears to be a more distinct construct that relates to aspects of psychopathology other than Social Symptomatology. Overall, results indicate that the Dark Triad is best conceptualized as a form of disordered personality, with links to low agreeableness. |
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