The fragile but bright facet in the Dark Gem: Narcissism positively predicts personal morality when individual's self-esteem is at low level

Zuo, Shijiang; Fang, Wang; Xu, Yan; Wang, Fengxiang; Zhao, Xinting

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.076

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“…Given that these three prosocial tendencies were highly correlated, it is not surprising that a similar pattern with these three types of prosocial behaviour emerged: narcissism was positively related to them, while Machiavellianism was related negatively. A consistent positive relation of narcissism to most of the above-mentioned types of prosocial tendencies is in accordance with previous findings indicating a positive link between narcissism and the selfreported prosocial behaviour (Kauten & Barry, 2016;Zuo et al, 2016). On the other hand, a negative link between Machiavellianism and emotional, dire and compliant prosocial behaviour might reflect a strategic orientation which is characteristic for Machiavellianism (see Jones & Paulhus, 2011), in a way that females high on Machiavellianism strategically choose to remain calm and not react prosocially in emotional and dire situations in order to protect themselves, or simply have their own agenda and stick to it.…”

Section: The Effects Of Dark Traits and Gender Differencessupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Bereczkei, Birkas, & Kerekes, 2010;Lannin, Guyll, Krizan, Madon, & Cornish, 2014;White, 2014). However, these traits seem to be positively linked to at least some forms of prosocial behaviour, such as self-reported (Kauten & Barry, 2016;Zuo, Wang, Xu, Wang, & Zhao, 2016), public (Konrath, Ho, Zarins, 2016;White, 2014) and opportunistic prosocial behaviour (Eberly-Lewis & Coetzee, 2015), reflecting the nature of these traits. For example, it is possible that beneath the positive link between prosocial behaviour and narcissism, which is perceived as "brighter" than the other two dark traits (Rauthmann & Kolar 2012), there lies a need for gaining social validation and rewards (Kauten & Barry, 2014;Zuo et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The relations of basic and dark personality traits with prosocial tendencies: Exploring gender differences

Wertag¹,

Ribar²,

Bratko³

2018

Psihol istraživanja

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Prosocial behaviour covers a broad range of actions that are intended to benefit others rather than oneself, thus forming different types of prosocial tendencies which are linked to different individual characteristics. Moreover, there are some gender differences in the types of prosocial behaviour that males and females engage in. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate personality traits associated with different forms of prosocial tendencies, as well as whether there were gender differences in these relations. Data were collected on-line on a total of 905 participants (81% female; M age = 24.30, SD = 6.52), using the Prosocial Tendencies Measure (assessing 6 types of prosocial tendencies: altruistic, compliant, emotional, dire, public, and anonymous), the Ten Item Personality Inventory, and the Short Dark Triad. The results of hierarchical regression analyses (with basic personality traits entered in the first and dark personality traits in the second step) indicated that, although the percentage of explained variance in all types of prosocial tendencies was modest (up to the total of 24%), basic personality traits contributed more to an explanation of public prosocial tendencies in males than in females. The dark traits had a (negative) contribution to the explanation of altruistic prosocial tendencies in both males and females, and a contribution above the basic traits in an explanation of emotional, dire and compliant prosocial tendencies only in females. Generally, the results showed some interesting patterns, highlighting gender differences in the relations of personality traits and prosocial tendencies.

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Section: The Effects Of Dark Traits and Gender Differencessupporting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The relations of basic and dark personality traits with prosocial tendencies: Exploring gender differences

Wertag¹,

Ribar²,

Bratko³

2018

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“…Place attachment mediates the relationship between the Dark Triad and environmental attitudes. Furthermore, the Dark Triad traits have mainly been the concern of Western researchers, whereas the traits and their psychometric structure are rarely explored under Chinese culture (e.g., Zuo, Wang, Xu, Wang, & Zhao, 2016). Thus, this study also explores the psychometric structure of the Dark Triad measure under the Chinese culture.…”

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“…3 1 The Dark Triad has two brief measures: Dirty Dozen and Short Dark Triad (SD3). Although SD3 showed stronger convergent and incremental validity than Dirty Dozen in Western culture, it showed relatively low reliability of each subscale in a previous study under Chinese culture (Zuo et al, 2016). For this reason, we chose Dirty Dozen to measure the Dark Triad this study.…”

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Environmental attitudes in China: The roles of the Dark Triad, future orientation and place attachment

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Given the current environmental situation and social change in China, we explored the relationships between the Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy) and environmental attitudes (beliefs regarding environmentally related issues), and the mediating roles of future orientation (the tendency to plan for meeting long-term objectives) and place attachment (the emotional connection with the place of residence) in these relationships. Using a national sample from all 31 provinces of mainland China (N = 998), we found that the psychometric structure of the Dark Triad was well confirmed under Chinese culture. The Dark Triad as a whole was negatively related to environmental attitudes, but narcissism was not significantly associated with environmental attitudes when the three Dark Triad traits were considered as the predictors simultaneously. Future orientation and place attachment mediated the association between the Dark Triad and environmental attitudes. These findings enrich our understanding of the relevant variables of environmental attitudes and provide references for China's government and other developing countries to improve environmental issues. The uniqueness of narcissism could expand the understanding of the commonality and diversity among the Dark Triad traits, and an efficient tool of the Dark Triad was provided under Chinese culture.

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“…Furnham, as cited in Kornilova & Chumakova, 2016), success in interpersonal relationships (Foster & Campbell, as cited in Kornilova & Chumakova, 2016;Morf & Rhodewalt, as cited in Nübold et al, 2017) and morality in individuals with low self-esteem (Zuo, Wang, Wang, & Zhao, 2016). Some authors point directly to the ambivalent role of narcissism.…”

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The Dark Triad Of Personality And Work Efficiency Of Kindergarten Teachers

Lenkov¹

2017

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The fragile but bright facet in the Dark Gem: Narcissism positively predicts personal morality when individual's self-esteem is at low level

Cited by 42 publications

References 37 publications

The relations of basic and dark personality traits with prosocial tendencies: Exploring gender differences

The relations of basic and dark personality traits with prosocial tendencies: Exploring gender differences

Environmental attitudes in China: The roles of the Dark Triad, future orientation and place attachment

The Dark Triad Of Personality And Work Efficiency Of Kindergarten Teachers

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