The Adaptation of the Short Dark Triad Personality Measure – Psychometric Properties of a German Sample

Malesza, Marta; Ostaszewski, Paweł; Büchner, Susanne; Kaczmarek, Magdalena

doi:10.1007/s12144-017-9662-0

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“…Kajonius, Persson, Rosenberg, and Garcia (2016, p. 1) have even accused this tool of "mismeasurement" of the dark triad due to its several limitations including the bimodal distribution of scores and low discriminatory power of narcissism items. To overcome some of these limitations, Jones and Paulhus (2014) developed a short dark triad scale known as SD3 and it was found to be more comprehensive than the former measure (Malesza, Ostaszewski, Büchner, & Kaczmarek, 2019). SD3 has been found to possess satisfactory internal consistency (Jones & Paulhus, 2014) along with convergent and discriminant validity (Pechorro et al, 2019).…”

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“…SD3 has been found to possess satisfactory internal consistency (Jones & Paulhus, 2014) along with convergent and discriminant validity (Pechorro et al, 2019). It has been translated into several languages and is used effectively across cultures (Gamache, Savard, & Maheux-Caron, 2017;Salessi & Omar, 2018;Malesza et al, 2019). Moreover, there are various parallel versions of SD3 (Atari & Chegeni, 2016;Ӧzsoy, Rauthmann, Jonason, & Ardıç, 2017;Pechorro et al, 2019), which have been developed to suit specific populations.…”

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Reexamining construct validity of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale

Siddiqi¹,

Shahnawaz²,

Nasir³

2020

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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BackgroundThe conceptualization of negative personality has evolved over the last few decades but the scientific assessment of negative traits is still at a nascent stage. The present study aimed to test the construct and external validity of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale, one of the most widely used scales to measure the dark triad, by conducting three independent studies.Participants and procedureExploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted on 379 participants and confirmatory bifactor analysis was carried out on a sample of 414 participants. Additionally, an independent sample of 168 participants was used to test the external validity of SD3.ResultsIn study 1, after the triarchic model was disconfirmed by a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), an EFA was run on the original 27-item scale, which produced a two-factor model consisting of a dark dyad and narcissism. This was followed by a confirmatory bifactor analysis in study 2, which revealed that while Machiavellianism and psychopathy are better measured as manifestations of a general negative disposition, narcissism emerges as a distinct trait which is not significantly captured by the dark core of personality. Moreover, study 3 revealed that dark dyad is a better correlate and predictor of negative traits as com-pared to narcissism.ConclusionsIn keeping with these findings, we propose that narcissism should be measured holistically with equal emphasis on all its con-stituents and facets and that the intrinsic dimensionality of these traits must be captured while scoring. Implications and future directions are duly discussed.

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Reexamining construct validity of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale

Siddiqi¹,

Shahnawaz²,

Nasir³

2020

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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“…Jones and Paulhus (2014) concluded that the scales subscales offer close proximate for all the Dark Triad traits they were supposed to measure. Malesza, Ostaszewski, Büchner, and Kaczmarek (2019) found SD3 to have high test-retest reliability.…”

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Do aggression and impulsivity dominate dark triad across genders?

Singh

Naeem

Chandiramani

2020

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The study investigated gender differences in Overall Dark Triad (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy), Aggression, Impulsivity, and impact of Dark triad on Aggression and Impulsivity. Data was collected from 214 young adults. Analyses was done using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation). T-test was employed to analyze gender differences. Pearson Correlation Method and Multiple regression were used to assess the relation and prediction amongst the variables, respectively. T-test suggested significant gender differences in Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, and Overall Dark Triad, with females scoring high than males. No gender difference was observed in Aggression and Impulsivity. Correlation and regression analyses revealed several significant relationships between the above constructs. The research was concluded by briefly foregrounding some of the study’s implications and future directions.

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“…We likewise diversified the agents' age per strength/Dark Triad trait by depicting them as either primary or secondary schoolers (6-18 years), young adults (19-34 years), adults (35-64 years), or older adults (more than 65 years). We crafted the stories vis-à-vis the literature and instruments for measuring character strengths and the Dark Triad using Peterson and Seligman's (2004) handbook, the German VIA-IS' items (see Ruch et al, 2010), and the German Short Dark Triad's and Dirty Dozen's items (see Küfner et al, 2015;Malesza et al, 2019).…”

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Scrutinizing the Criteria for Character Strengths: Laypersons Assert That Every Strength Is Positively Morally Valued, Even in the Absence of Tangible Outcomes

Stahlmann

Ruch

2020

Front. Psychol.

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This study examines Peterson and Seligman's (2004, p. 19) claim that every VIA character strength "(.. .) is morally valued in its own right, even in the absence of obvious beneficial outcomes". Although this criterion assumes a pivotal role in distinguishing character from personality, no previous study has investigated its validity. Based on what Peterson and Seligman (2004) have provided us with, we describe how we built our study around indirectly testing every strength's assumed moral evaluation, in which inclinations toward deontology (e.g., "torture is wrong regardless of tangible positive outcomes") and consequentialism (e.g., "torture can be good if it accounts for more positive than negative outcomes") may play a critical role. We used Peterson and Seligman's (2004) handbook to construct four ultra-short stories for every strength: the stories depict various agents engaging in strength-related behavior (e.g., a young student courageously stepping up against school bullies). We prompted participants to rate these and twelve anchor stories multiple times as to whether the agents acted morally correct: In the first block, the actions' consequences were undetermined while in the second block, the actions had either positive, negative, or mixed consequences, which we used to compute proxies of participants' inclinations toward deontology and consequentialism. The ratings of N = 230 German-speaking laypersons suggest that the criterion stands: participants perceived every strength as positively morally valued when consequences were undetermined, and positive consequences did not account for or increase this effect. However, moral value seems to come in degrees, and some strengths were valued more strongly than others (top five: judgment, honesty, kindness, fairness, and hope). Furthermore, specific character strengths (measured by self-report) were connected with more positive evaluations (e.g., endorsing spirituality was connected with rating spirituality as more positively valued). Both deontology and consequentialism were connected with more positive evaluations, and we suggest two hypotheses to explain how such inclinations can lead to perceiving character strengths

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The Adaptation of the Short Dark Triad Personality Measure – Psychometric Properties of a German Sample

Cited by 54 publications

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Reexamining construct validity of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale

Reexamining construct validity of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale

Do aggression and impulsivity dominate dark triad across genders?

Scrutinizing the Criteria for Character Strengths: Laypersons Assert That Every Strength Is Positively Morally Valued, Even in the Absence of Tangible Outcomes

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