International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
Educational Sciences Department, Düzce University, Düzce, Turkey.
J Addict Dis. 2021 Jul-Sep;39(3):307-315. doi: 10.1080/10550887.2021.1872469. Epub 2021 Jan 26.
Research has shown that personality traits can have an important role in the development and maintenance of behavioral addictions. However, the relationship between dark personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, sadism, spitefulness) and 'study addiction' has yet to be investigated. The purpose of the present study was to examine the associations of dark traits with study addiction among the total sample, males, and females separately, while adjusting for the Big Five personality traits (i.e., extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness). A total of 716 university students completed an online survey, including questions assessing the aforementioned variables. Hierarchical regression analysis suggested that being female, neuroticism, conscientiousness, Machiavellianism, and sadism were positively associated with study addiction. However, dark personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, sadism) were significantly related to study addiction only in males but not in females. Findings of this preliminary study suggest that dark personality traits may be better at explaining male addictive studying patterns and that gender should be taken into account when investigating the role of personality in the development of study addiction.
研究表明，人格特质在行为成瘾的发展和维持中起着重要作用。然而，黑暗人格特质（即马基雅维利主义、精神病态、自恋、虐待狂、恶意）与“学习成瘾”之间的关系尚未得到研究。本研究的目的是在考虑大五人格特质（即外向性、神经质、宜人性、开放性、尽责性）的情况下，分别在总体样本、男性和女性中检验黑暗特质与学习成瘾之间的关联。共有 716 名大学生完成了一项在线调查，其中包括评估上述变量的问题。层次回归分析表明，女性、神经质、尽责性、马基雅维利主义和虐待狂与学习成瘾呈正相关。然而，只有在男性中，而不是在女性中，黑暗人格特质（即马基雅维利主义、虐待狂）与学习成瘾显著相关。这项初步研究的结果表明，黑暗人格特质可能更能解释男性的成瘾性学习模式，在研究人格在学习成瘾发展中的作用时应考虑性别因素。
