Title
Country-level correlates of the Dark Triad traits in 49 countries
Date Issued
01 December 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Jonason P.K.
Żemojtel-Piotrowska M.
Piotrowski J.
Sedikides C.
Campbell W.K.
Gebauer J.E.
Maltby J.
Adamovic M.
Adams B.G.
Kadiyono A.L.
Atitsogbe K.A.
Bundhoo H.Y.
Bălțătescu S.
Bilić S.
Brulin J.G.
Chobthamkit P.
Del Carmen Dominguez A.
Dragova-Koleva S.
El-Astal S.
Esteves C.S.
Labib M. Eldesoki W.
Gouveia V.V.
Gundolf K.
Ilisko D.
Jauk E.
Kamble S.V.
Khachatryan N.
Klicperova-Baker M.
Knezovic E.
Kovacs M.
Lei X.
Liik K.
Mamuti A.
Moreta-Herrera C.R.
Milfont T.L.
Wei Ong C.
Osin E.
Park J.
Petrovic B.
Ridic G.
Qadir A.
Samekin A.
Sawicki A.
Tiliouine H.
Tomsik R.
Umeh C.S.
van den Bos K.
Van Hiel A.
Uslu O.
Wlodarczyk A.
Yahiiaev I.
University of Padova
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
Objectives: The Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) capture individual differences in aversive personality to complement work on other taxonomies, such as the Big Five traits. However, the literature on the Dark Triad traits relies mostly on samples from English-speaking (i.e., Westernized) countries. We broadened the scope of this literature by sampling from a wider array of countries. Method: We drew on data from 49 countries (N = 11,723; 65.8% female; AgeMean = 21.53) to examine how an extensive net of country-level variables in economic status (e.g., Human Development Index), social relations (e.g., gender equality), political orientations (e.g., democracy), and cultural values (e.g., embeddedness) relate to country-level rates of the Dark Triad traits, as well as variance in the magnitude of sex differences in them. Results: Narcissism was especially sensitive to country-level variables. Countries with more embedded and hierarchical cultural systems were more narcissistic. Also, sex differences in narcissism were larger in more developed societies: Women were less likely to be narcissistic in developed (vs. less developed) countries. Conclusions: We discuss the results based on evolutionary and social role models of personality and sex differences. That higher country-level narcissism was more common in less developed countries, whereas sex differences in narcissism were larger in more developed countries, is more consistent with evolutionary than social role models.
Start page
1252
End page
1267
Volume
88
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sociología Psicología (incluye terapias de aprendizaje, habla, visual y otras discapacidades físicas y mentales)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85087300913
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Personality
ISSN of the container
00223506
Sponsor(s)
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Peter Jonason was partially funded by a grant from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (PPN/ULM/2019/1/00019/U/00001). Magdalena Żemojtel‐Piotrowska and Jarosław Piotrowski were supported by a grant from the Polish National Science Centre (2016/21/B/HS6/01069). Kokou A. Atitsogbe was supported by a Swiss Government Excellence PhD Scholarship no. 2015.0639/Togo/OP. Valdiney V. Gouveia was supported by the Brazilian National Council of Technological and Scientific Development. Joel Gruneau Brulin was supported by a John Templeton Foundation grant (51897). Martina Klicperova‐Baker was supported by grants from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (#15‐11062S) and the Czech Academy of Sciences (RVO 68081740). Evgeny Osin was supported by a grant from the Russian Academic Excellence (5‐100). Grantová Agentura České Republiky 15‐11062S GA ČR Akademie Věd České Republiky RVO 68081740 AV ČR Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej PPN/ULM/2019/1/00019/U/00001 NAWA
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