The Spanish Short Dark Tetrad (SD4): Association With Personality and Psychological Problems.
Psicothema
; 36(2): 195-204, 2024 05.
Article
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) is a recently developed instrument for assessing the "dark" personality traits of psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and sadism. We aimed to examine the SD4's psychometric properties, adapting it into Spanish and exploring its structure, gender invariance, reliability, concurrent validity, and nomological network.METHOD:
A sample of 668 adults (Mage = 26.36, SD = 10.64, 69.2% females) completed the SD4 and other self-report questionnaires.RESULTS:
The results demonstrated sound indices of reliability and concurrent validity, an adequate four-factor structure, and support for gender invariance. Furthermore, most of the findings about the nomological network were in line with prior hypotheses All four SD4 scales were associated with low levels of agreeableness and antagonism; psychopathy was also related to low conscientiousness, disinhibition and impulse-control problems; narcissism was positively associated with extraversion and negatively associated with internalizing symptoms; Machiavellianism was uncorrelated with impulsivity-related problems, which made it distinct from the psychopathy profile; finally, sadism showed a similar pattern of associations to psychopathy, albeit less strongly linked to impulsivity problems and externalizing behavior.CONCLUSIONS:
Overall, the SD4 presents sound psychometric properties, although the overlap between psychopathy and sadism warrants some caution.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Psicometría
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Maquiavelismo
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Narcisismo
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Trastorno de Personalidad Antisocial
Límite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Psicothema
Asunto de la revista:
PSICOLOGIA
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article