The Dark Triad Of Personality In Kindergarten, School And University Teachers

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Burnout Syndrome and Dark Triad at Schools: Engineers as Teachers of Vocational Technical Subjects

“…The regression analysis has shown that the Dark Triad significantly predicts the development of emotional exhaustion at a rate of 15.7% and depersonalization at a rate of 23.5%, psychopathy was the most important predictor in both cases. This result is not surprising when looking at the research of Lenkov et al (2018), which points to a significant level of psychopathy among secondary school teachers compared to elementary and secondary school teachers. More comprehensive testing of Dark Triad-burnout syndrome relationship suggests that up to 58% of burnout syndrome can be explained by the presence of aversive personality traits.…”

“…As suggested above, much of the teacher´s personality research is focused on identifying teacher´s positive personality traits, with the Big Five perspective most often used (Berkovich and Eyal, 2019;Kalinnikova et al, 2018;Rohani, 2017;Tamban and Banasihan, 2017;Tan, Marsi and Furnham, 2018). As Lenkov, Rubtsova and Nizamova (2018) state, much less attention has been paid to the other side of the teacher's personality. A more comprehensive view of his personality, thus from both the bright and the dark perspective, could explain the diversity of teacher responses in the performance of their vocation.…”

“…Fortunately, despite the inadequate examination of professional-specific samples in the Dark Triad, we can find some empirical evidence that does not exclude the occurrence of Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy in a sample of teachers. The study of Lenkov, Rubtsova and Nizamova (2018) examined the occurrence of the traits of the Dark Triad among pedagogues at three different levels of the educational process -kindergarten, school (primary and secondary) and university level. The authors obtained interesting results about school (primary and secondary) teachers who scored significantly higher in psychopathy than kindergarten teachers and university teachers.…”

Dark Triad and Motivation to Become a Helping Professional

“…Studies where students from different directions would be compared in this way are not known. However, there are studies that point to a higher rate of aversive traits in healthcare professionals (Admas & Maykut, 2015;Bakir et al, 2003;Bratek et al, 2015;Bucknall et al, 2015;Pegrum & Pearce, 2015), pedagogical workers (Lenkov et al, 2018) and social workers (Babiak, 1995;Selingson, 1992).…”

“…In their work, Adams and Maykut (2015) discussed the potential dangers of inappropriate care of nurses and other medical staff if they would have dark features. Lenkov, Rubtsova and Nizamova (2018) recorded the highest incidence of dark personality traits among university teachers. More detailed results showed a significantly higher level of psychopathy among elementary and secondary school teachers.…”