Structural validity of the Machiavellian Personality Scale: A bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling approach

Gu, Honglei; Wen, Zefeng; Fan, Xitao

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.09.042

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“…Machiavellianism is a personality trait that should characterize an efficient leader who is able to maintain his resources and privileges no matter what the costs; thus, such a leader should be pragmatic, tactical, and strategic but also immoral, manipulative and cynical (Christie and Geis 1970;Jones and Paulhus 2009). The structure of Machiavellianism is somewhat unclear, and the following facets are usually differentiated: cynical worldview, manipulative tactics, amorality, lack of empathy, agentic motives, and self-enhancement (Christie and Geis 1970;Fehr et al 1992;Jones and Paulhus 2009); however, the results from the study of Gu et al (2017) suggest that only desire for control can be meaningfully differentiated from global Machiavellianism.…”

Section: Structure Of Machiavellianismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dark Triad traits and their structure: An empirical approach

Rogoza

Cieciuch

2018

Curr Psychol

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In the present research we investigated the structure of the Dark Triad of personality. On the basis of analyses performed on a broad spectrum of different items from different measures of traits usually included into the Dark Triad we provided support for the ideas that: (1) narcissism and the Dark Dyad are independent constructs; (2) it is possible to differentiate twelve meaningful dark facets in the pool of dark items from various measure of psychopathy, Machiavellianism and narcissism; (3) these facets could be organized within a hierarchical structure, which suggests that Machiavellianism as it is currently measured is an aspect of psychopathy in a similar manner as exhibitionism is an aspect of narcissism; (4) distinguished facets are organized in a theoretically predictable pattern of relations with basic personality traits and values, just as narcissism and the Dark Dyad are related to personality metatraits and higher order values.

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Section: Structure Of Machiavellianismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dark Triad traits and their structure: An empirical approach

Rogoza

Cieciuch

2018

Curr Psychol

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“…The omega is considered the best alternative to Cronbach's α as the assumptions of Cronbach's α, such as essentially tau-equivalence model, are usually violated [34]. The values of omega and corrected item-scale correlations were considered acceptable when greater than 0.7 [35] and 0.3 [23], respectively. When testing for convergent validity, for each subject with at most five (50%) nonresponded items, the missing values were replaced with the average score of the remaining items.…”

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Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Toronto Hospital Alertness Test

Fong

Wong

et al. 2020

J Patient Rep Outcomes

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Background: Alertness is an important part of attention which is different from the opposite of sleepiness. This study aimed to translate and assess the measurement properties of the Toronto Hospital Alertness Test (THAT) in Hong Kong Chinese population. Methods: The standard forward-backward translation procedure and cognitive debriefing were conducted to obtain the Chinese THAT. One hundred Chinese adults completed the Chinese THAT, the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS) by telephone interviews. Results: The factorial validity was assessed by confirmatory factor analysis, and the internal reliability was examined by coefficient omega. The two negatively worded items of the THAT had low factor loadings and were removed. One more item was removed based on the modification indices of the eight-item model. The remaining sevenitem THAT showed satisfactory unidimensionality with root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.06, standardized root mean square residual (SRMR) = 0.08, and comparative fit index (CFI) = 1.00. The coefficient omega of the seven-item Chinese THAT was 0.80 (95% CI: 0.74-0.86). Convergent validity was demonstrated with THAT moderately associated with CES-D (r = − 0.45, P < 0.01), PSQI (r = − 0.40, P < 0.01), and AIS (r = − 0.45, P < 0.01). Conclusions: The Chinese version of THAT demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity in a Chinese population.

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“…Then, it is negatively associated with fraudulent and manipulative manners in achieving goals. Brewer (2017) describes Machiavellianism is characterised by a manipulative interpersonal style, willingness to exploit others, and a preference for emotionally detached relationships Highly Machiavellian individuals may aggressive and deviant methods to achieve their goals, regardless of other people's feelings, rights and needs (Gu & Wen, 2017). Machiavellianism personality displays tendencies to manipulate people and show less appreciation to people.…”

Section: Machiavellianismmentioning

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The relationships among love of money and unethical behaviour

Rahman¹

2020

JCA

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This study examines the relationships between love of money and unethical behaviour, with Machiavellianism and narcissism, acted as the intervening variables. The data were collected by distributing a questionnaire to 122 banking employees in Yogyakarta and analysed using multiple regression analysis to test the hypothesis. Results indicate that Machiavellianism and narcissism were significantly related to unethical behaviour. Meanwhile, instead of love of money, which did not have any relationship with Machiavellianism, it had a significant relationship with narcissism. The implication of the findings is that a person who loves money and with high Machiavellianism are more likely to do unethical behaviour. However, people with high love of money are not always associated with a Machiavellianism personality.

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Structural validity of the Machiavellian Personality Scale: A bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling approach

Cited by 37 publications

References 40 publications

Dark Triad traits and their structure: An empirical approach

Dark Triad traits and their structure: An empirical approach

Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Toronto Hospital Alertness Test

The relationships among love of money and unethical behaviour

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