Rico-Bordera Pilar, Pineda David, Galán Manuel, Piqueras José A
Forensic Psychology Unit of the Centre for Applied Psychology, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Avenida de la Universidad, Alicante, Spain.
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Murcia, Guadalupe de Maciascoque, Murcia, Spain.
Personal Ment Health. 2025 Feb;19(1):e1639. doi: 10.1002/pmh.1639. Epub 2024 Oct 31.
Assessing dark personality traits with self-reports may be hampered by biases such as socially desirable responding. To address this, observer reports could be an effective complement or alternative to self-reports. This meta-analysis aimed to investigate the correlations of observer reports of the Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad traits with these traits' self-reports. A comprehensive search in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and PsycINFO yielded 24 studies that met the inclusion criteria (with 32 effect sizes) and included the assessment of at least one of the dark traits. Results showed positive self-observer correlations of medium-high magnitude for psychopathy (r = 0.47) and of medium magnitude for narcissism and Machiavellianism (respectively, r = 0.44 and 0.41). In addition, for Machiavellianism and psychopathy, it was shown that the better acquainted the observer and the observed, the higher the self-observer correlations. For sadism, no results could be obtained because only one study included the assessment of this trait. This is the first meta-analysis of inter-rater agreement in assessing the Dark Tetrad. The findings suggest that observer reports could be a supplement or even be alternatives to self-reports when assessing the Dark Tetrad traits.
通过自我报告评估黑暗人格特质可能会受到社会期望反应等偏差的阻碍。为了解决这个问题，他人报告可以作为自我报告的有效补充或替代方法。本荟萃分析旨在研究黑暗三元组和黑暗四元组特质的他人报告与这些特质的自我报告之间的相关性。在PubMed、科学网、Scopus和PsycINFO中进行的全面检索产生了24项符合纳入标准的研究（有32个效应量），并包括对至少一种黑暗特质的评估。结果显示，精神病态的自我与他人报告之间存在中高强度的正相关（r = 0.47），自恋和马基雅维利主义的自我与他人报告之间存在中等强度的正相关（分别为r = 0.44和0.41）。此外，对于马基雅维利主义和精神病态，研究表明，观察者与被观察者越熟悉，自我与他人报告之间的相关性就越高。对于施虐癖，由于只有一项研究包括了对该特质的评估，因此无法获得相关结果。这是第一项关于评估黑暗四元组时评分者间一致性的荟萃分析。研究结果表明，在评估黑暗四元组特质时，他人报告可以作为自我报告的补充甚至替代方法。
