The (mis)measurement of the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen: exploitation at the core of the scale.

ABSTRACT: Background. The dark side of human character has been conceptualized in the Dark Triad Model: Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. These three dark traits are often measured using single long instruments for each one of the traits. Nevertheless, there is a necessity of short and valid personality measures in psychological research. As an independent research group, we replicated the factor structure, convergent validity and item response for one of the most recent and widely used short measures to operationalize these malevolent traits, namely, Jonason's Dark Triad Dirty Dozen. We aimed to expand the understanding of what the Dirty Dozen really captures because the mixed results on construct validity in previous research. Method. We used the largest sample to date to respond to t

SUBMITTER: Kajonius PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4782707 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature