Employee strengths use has been found to be beneficial to employee and the
employer organization. Yet, we have little knowledge on the antecedents to
employee strengths use. participants (N = 241). Results indicate that
psychopathy, narcissism and marital dissatisfaction are related to stronger
tendencies towards infidelity, and that these effects are partially (in the
case of psychopathy and marital dissatisfaction) or totally (in the case of
narcissism) mediated by the tendency to morally justify unfaithful acts. No
unique direct or indirect effect of Machiavellianism emerged as significant,
while men were found to be more inclined towards unfaithful conduct. These
findings highlight the importance of the skewed and self-lenient moral
judgments fostered by the Dark Triad traits and marital dissatisfaction,
which legitimize one?s infidelity and thus renders it more likely.
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