Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
Spring 4-14-2021
Publication Title
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Department
Psychology
College/School
College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Abstract
Network analysis offers an opportunity to gain a more nuanced view of the connections between the darker aspects of personality by examining the interrelationships between the components that make up these constructs. We examined the associations that five dark personality dispositions (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism, and spitefulness) had with pathological personality traits (i.e., antagonism, disinhibition, detachment, negative affectivity, and psychoticism) via network analysis. These dark personality networks were examined in four studies (N = 1,800), wherein the second study attempted to replicate the network from the first study, while the last two studies incorporated more specific and independent measures of dark personality features (e.g., grandiose and vulnerable narcissism). Although there were differences across network structures in these studies, the pathological personality trait of antagonism consistently evinced high expected influence centrality (i.e., it was the most strongly connected and possibly influential trait in each network). Our discussion focuses on the implications of these results for the understanding of the connections between the darker aspects of personality.
Recommended Citation
Jordan, D.G., Jonason, P.K., Zeigler-Hill, V. et al. A Dark Web of Personality: Network Analyses of Dark Personality Features and Pathological Personality Traits. J Psychopathol Behav Assess 44, 186–201 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-021-09882-3
Comments
This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-021-09882-3