As cold as a fish? Relationships between the Dark Triad personality traits and affective experience during the day: A day reconstruction study.

ABSTRACT: The Dark Triad of personality is a cluster of three socially aversive personality traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. These traits are associated with a selfish, aggressive and exploitative interpersonal strategy. The objective of the current study was to establish relationships between the Dark Triad traits (and their dimensions) and momentary affect. Machiavellianism, grandiose narcissism, vulnerable narcissism and the dimensions of the Triarchic model of psychopathy (namely, boldness, meanness and disinhibition) were examined. We used the Day Reconstruction Method, which is based on reconstructing affective states experienced during the previous day. The final sample consisted of 270 university students providing affective ratings of 3047 diary episodes. Analyses using

SUBMITTER: Pilch I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7041966 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature