Department

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

This paper proposes a research project that aims to develop a new short measure of the Dark Tetrad, which is a term used to describe the combination of the dark personality traits of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism. These dark personality traits are characterized by social offensive traits that are not extreme enough to garner clinical attention. There is a need for a short measure of the Dark Tetrad because 1) there is currently no short measure of the Dark Tetrad, and 2) the current short measures of the Dark Triad (which includes Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism) are inconsistent with well-established measures of each Dark Triad construct. This project is an extension of another research study that already created a preliminary 107-item Dark Tetrad measure and administered this measure to a sample of 230 participants. The data collected in this study will be used to determine which items from the preliminary measure will be included in the new Short Dark Tetrad measure through a confirmatory factor analysis. After the new Short Dark Tetrad measure is created, the current study will be used to provide validity evidence for the measure through a cross-validation study. In order to accomplish this, all participants will be administered both the new Short Dark Tetrad measure and a well-established measure of a Dark Tetrad construct. Each participant will be randomly assigned to either a well-established measure of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, or sadism. Results from the well-established measures will be compared to item responses on the new Short Dark Tetrad measure in order to determine whether the new measure is truly measuring Dark Tetrad constructs. Creating a short measure of the Dark Tetrad will help researchers quickly and effectively measure these constructs in future research studies.

Date

10-24-2020

Subject

Industrial and organizational psychology

Document Type

posters

Language

English

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License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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A new short measure of the Dark Tetrad

This paper proposes a research project that aims to develop a new short measure of the Dark Tetrad, which is a term used to describe the combination of the dark personality traits of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism. These dark personality traits are characterized by social offensive traits that are not extreme enough to garner clinical attention. There is a need for a short measure of the Dark Tetrad because 1) there is currently no short measure of the Dark Tetrad, and 2) the current short measures of the Dark Triad (which includes Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism) are inconsistent with well-established measures of each Dark Triad construct. This project is an extension of another research study that already created a preliminary 107-item Dark Tetrad measure and administered this measure to a sample of 230 participants. The data collected in this study will be used to determine which items from the preliminary measure will be included in the new Short Dark Tetrad measure through a confirmatory factor analysis. After the new Short Dark Tetrad measure is created, the current study will be used to provide validity evidence for the measure through a cross-validation study. In order to accomplish this, all participants will be administered both the new Short Dark Tetrad measure and a well-established measure of a Dark Tetrad construct. Each participant will be randomly assigned to either a well-established measure of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, or sadism. Results from the well-established measures will be compared to item responses on the new Short Dark Tetrad measure in order to determine whether the new measure is truly measuring Dark Tetrad constructs. Creating a short measure of the Dark Tetrad will help researchers quickly and effectively measure these constructs in future research studies.