Department of Psychology, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Fortstr. 7, 76829, Landau, Germany.
Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 47, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
Sci Rep. 2023 Sep 12;13(1):15021. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-42115-z.
The Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad are the constellation of aversive traits that are most commonly assessed to study their common (aversive) and unique (non-aversive) features. Nonetheless, it is unclear whether these particular traits (in combination) indeed closely approximate the common core of all aversive traits. A close approximation of the aversive core, however, is crucial if one is strictly interested in an aversive trait's unique variance. Therefore, the present study aims to specify how many and which aversive traits jointly approximate the aversive core to a satisfactory extent. To this end, the aversive core was first estimated from 16 aversive traits and then correlated to the aversive cores extracted from all 63,002 possible combinations of two to eleven of these traits. Results showed that most combinations of four, or essentially any combination of at least six aversive traits, approximated the aversive core reasonably well, whereas the Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad lead to systematically poorer approximations compared to other combinations of three of four aversive traits.
黑暗三巨头和黑暗四合一是一组令人反感的特征，通常用于研究它们的共同（令人反感）和独特（非令人反感）特征。然而，这些特定的特征（组合）是否确实接近所有令人反感的特征的共同核心还不清楚。如果人们严格关注令人反感的特征的独特方差，那么接近令人反感的核心是至关重要的。因此，本研究旨在确定有多少和哪些令人反感的特征可以共同接近令人反感的核心，以达到令人满意的程度。为此，首先从 16 个令人反感的特征中估计出令人反感的核心，然后将其与从这些特征中的任意两个到十一个特征的所有 63002 种可能组合中提取出的令人反感的核心进行相关分析。结果表明，大多数四个特征的组合，或者本质上是任何六个以上令人反感的特征的组合，都能很好地接近令人反感的核心，而黑暗三巨头和四合一对三个或四个令人反感的特征的组合的逼近程度明显较差。
