Department of Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Landau, Germany.
Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
J Pers. 2024 Apr;92(2):393-404. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12830. Epub 2023 Mar 20.
There is an ongoing debate in personality research whether the common core of aversive ("dark") traits can be approximated by or even considered equivalent to one of the constructs that have been labeled "Agreeableness". In particular, it has been suggested that the low pole of (what we term) AG+, a broad blend of Big Five Agreeableness and the HEXACO factors Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and Altruism, is essentially equivalent to the Dark Factor of Personality (D). Based on theoretical differences, we herein test empirically whether D and AG+ are isomorphic.
Self-report data on D, AG+, and eight criterion measures reflecting justifying beliefs, inflicting disutility on others, and affiliative tendencies were collected in a pre-registered study (N = 1156) and analyzed via confirmatory factor modeling.
Results speak against unity of D and AG+ (35% shared variance) and support the notion that D subsumes a broader range of aversive content (i.e., justifying beliefs and inflicting disutility on others) than AG+, which, in turn, subsumes a slightly broader range of non-aversive, affiliative tendencies.
We conclude that AG+ is non-equivalent to the common core of aversive traits, D.
在人格研究中，存在着一场持续的争论，即令人不快（“黑暗”）特质的共同核心是否可以近似于甚至被认为等同于被标记为“宜人性”的结构之一。特别是，有人认为（我们称之为）AG+的低极点，即大五宜人性和 HEXACO 因素诚实-谦逊、宜人性和利他主义的广泛融合，本质上等同于人格的黑暗因素（D）。基于理论差异，我们在此通过实证检验来测试 D 和 AG+是否同构。
在一项预先注册的研究（N=1156）中，收集了关于 D、AG+和反映辩护信念、给他人造成效用损失和亲和倾向的八项标准衡量标准的自我报告数据，并通过验证性因素建模进行了分析。
结果表明 D 和 AG+的统一性（35%的共享方差）并不成立，并支持这样一种观点，即 D 包含了更广泛的令人不快的内容（即辩护信念和给他人造成效用损失），而 AG+则包含了稍广泛的非令人不快的亲和倾向。
我们的结论是，AG+与令人不快的特质的共同核心，即 D，并不等同。
