Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Institute of Psychology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.
J Pers. 2021 Apr;89(2):338-356. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12585. Epub 2020 Sep 2.
We investigated how Dark Triad traits influence the development and maintenance of social relations.
Participants completed the Short Dark Triad questionnaire and a measure of social relations at three time points: at the beginning of their first year in high school, 3 months later, and at the end of their first year. We investigated whether the Dark Triad traits are stable over time using Multilevel Modeling (N = 265; 59.6% girls), and how Dark Triad traits predict incoming and outgoing agentic and communal relations using Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (N = 192; 60.4% girls).
Overall, the Dark Triad traits were stable over a one-year period. Narcissism did not predict an increase in communal and agentic relations in the short-term, but predicted slightly less incoming communal and more agentic relations in the long-term. In the short-term, Machiavellianism predicted a small increase while psychopathy predicted a small decrease in the incoming agentic and communal relations. In the long-term, however, neither Machiavellianism nor psychopathy was a significant predictor of any incoming relations.
Our results shed new light on the dynamics of making and maintaining social relations through the prism of the Dark Triad traits.
本研究旨在探讨黑暗人格特质如何影响社会关系的发展和维持。
参与者在三个时间点完成了短版黑暗人格特质问卷和社会关系量表：高中第一年开始时、3 个月后和高中第一年结束时。我们使用多层线性模型（N=265；女生占 59.6%）来考察黑暗人格特质是否具有时间稳定性，使用时间指数随机图模型（N=192；女生占 60.4%）来考察黑暗人格特质如何预测新的和旧的亲社会和工具性关系。
总体而言，黑暗人格特质在一年的时间里是稳定的。自恋在短期内并没有预测亲社会和工具性关系的增加，但在长期内预测到了较少的亲社会关系和较多的工具性关系。在短期内，马基雅维利主义预测到了亲社会和工具性关系的轻微增加，而精神病态则预测到了亲社会和工具性关系的轻微减少。然而，在长期内，马基雅维利主义和精神病态都不是任何新关系的显著预测因素。
本研究结果从黑暗人格特质的角度为理解社会关系的建立和维持提供了新的视角。
