Structure of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Across Eight World Regions
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2021-06
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Rogoza, R.
Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M.
Jonason, P.K.
Piotrowski, J.
Campbell, K.W.
Gebauer, J.E.
Maltby, J.
Sedikides, C.
Adamovic, M.
Adams, B.G.
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Abstract
The Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) has garnered intense attention over the past 15 years. We examined the structure of these traits’ measure—the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen (DTDD)—in a sample of 11,488 participants from three W.E.I.R.D. (i.e., North America, Oceania, Western Europe) and five non-W.E.I.R.D. (i.e., Asia, Middle East, non-Western Europe, South America, sub-Saharan Africa) world regions. The results confirmed the measurement invariance of the DTDD across participants’ sex in all world regions, with men scoring higher than women on all traits (except for psychopathy in Asia, where the difference was not significant). We found evidence for metric (and partial scalar) measurement invariance within and between W.E.I.R.D. and non-W.E.I.R.D. world regions. The results generally support the structure of the DTDD.
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culture, Dark Triad, Machiavellianism, measurement, Narcissism, psychopathy, Taverne, Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology
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Rogoza, R, Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M, Jonason, P K, Piotrowski, J, Campbell, K W, Gebauer, J E, Maltby, J, Sedikides, C, Adamovic, M, Adams, B G, Ang, R P, Ardi, R, Atitsogbe, K A, Baltatescu, S, Bilić, S, Bodroža, B, Gruneau Brulin, J, Bundhoo Poonoosamy, H Y, Chaleeraktrakoon, T, Del Carmen Dominguez, A, Dragova-Koleva, S, El-Astal, S, Eldesoki, W L M, Gouveia, V V, Gundolf, K, Ilisko, D, Jukić, T, Kamble, S V, Khachatryan, N, Klicperova-Baker, M, Kovacs, M, Kozytska, I, Larzabal Fernandez, A, Lehmann, K, Lei, X, Liik, K, McCain, J, Milfont, T L, Nehrlich, A, Osin, E, Özsoy, E, Park, J, Ramos-Diaz, J, Riđić, O, Qadir, A, Samekin, A, Tiliouine, H, Tomsik, R, Umeh, C S, van den Bos, K, Van Hiel, A, Vauclair, C M & Włodarczyk, A 2021, 'Structure of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Across Eight World Regions', Assessment, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1125-1135. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120922611