Jia Xuji, Wang Qingjin, Lin Lin
Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.
Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Dec 16;11:613695. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.613695. eCollection 2020.
In addition to what we know as benevolent creativity, which involves originality and usefulness, creativity also includes malevolent creativity, which involves the application of creative ideas to intentionally harm others. This study aimed to explore the environmental and individual predictors of malevolent creativity. We investigated the relationship among childhood neglect, Dark Triad personality traits and malevolent creativity and examined the mediating role of Dark Triad personality. A large sample ( = 991) of Chinese undergraduate students completed the childhood neglect scale, the 12-item Dirty Dozen and the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale. Structural equation modeling demonstrated that childhood neglect was positively related to individual malevolent creativity, and the Dark Triad partially mediated this relationship. Additionally, gender differences were found, such that childhood neglect had a stronger effect on malevolent creativity through the Dark Triad among males than females. The results were discussed from the perspectives of life history theory and social information processing theory.
除了我们所知的有益创造力,即涉及原创性和实用性的创造力外,创造力还包括恶意创造力,即涉及将创造性想法应用于故意伤害他人。本研究旨在探索恶意创造力的环境和个体预测因素。我们调查了童年期忽视、黑暗三性格特质与恶意创造力之间的关系,并检验了黑暗三性格的中介作用。一大样本(N = 991)的中国本科生完成了童年期忽视量表、12项黑暗十二人格量表和恶意创造行为量表。结构方程模型表明,童年期忽视与个体恶意创造力呈正相关,黑暗三性格部分中介了这种关系。此外,还发现了性别差异,即童年期忽视通过黑暗三性格对男性恶意创造力的影响比对女性的影响更强。从生命史理论和社会信息加工理论的角度对结果进行了讨论。