Badura-Brzoza Karina, Główczyński Patryk, Dębski Paweł, Brzoza Zenon
Clinical Department of Psychiatry, Medical Faculty in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Tarnowskie Góry, Poland.
Institute of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Humanitas University in Sosnowiec, Sosnowiec, Poland.
Front Psychiatry. 2025 Aug 7;16:1582077. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1582077. eCollection 2025.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the related restrictions have changed the lives of people around the world. Compliance with the recommendations issued by the WHO and the ministries of health of individual countries was important in order to limit the transmission of the SARS-COV-2 virus. Over time, public vaccinations against COVID-19 appeared, which gave rise to a wave of anti-vaccine demonstrations.
Bearing in mind the hypothesis about the relationship between the characteristics of the Dark Triad and pro-health behaviors, The aim of the study was to analyze the possible correlations between Dark Triad personality traits, the levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and vaccination behavior.
419 people participated in the study, including 317 people aged 35.87 ± 13.65 SD years who received the Covid-19 vaccination and 102 people aged 38.18 ± 12.13 SD years who decided not to receive the vaccine.
The Dirty Dozen Scale (DDS), the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) and the State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-X2) were used in the study.
On the Dirty Dozen Scale, the vaccinated group had an average score of 23.29 ± 10.10 SD and the unvaccinated group had an average score of 20.81 ± 8.84 SD. Comparative analysis of the study groups showed statistically significant differences both in the overall DDS score and in its subscales - machiavellianism and narcissism. There were no differences in the psychopathy subscale. When analyzing the relationship between anxiety as a trait and stress assessed with the PSS-10 scale, no statistically significant correlations were found in the overall score on the DDS scale, as well as in the subscales of machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism.
In the study, people with features of machiavellianism and narcissism more often decided to vaccinate against COVID-19, such a relationship could not be established for people with features of psychopathy. Aversive personality traits that are part of the Dark Triad (DD) are associated with non-compliance with the imposed norms or sanitary regime related to the pandemic, but they do not exclude concern for the health of the individual. Further research is needed on the Dark Triad in the context of social and cultural differences and in the field of undertaking pro-health behaviors.
新冠疫情及其相关限制改变了全世界人们的生活。遵守世界卫生组织及各国卫生部发布的建议对于限制严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）病毒的传播至关重要。随着时间的推移，针对新冠病毒的公共疫苗接种出现了，这引发了一波反疫苗示威活动。
鉴于关于黑暗三联征特征与促进健康行为之间关系的假设，本研究的目的是分析黑暗三联征人格特质、焦虑和抑郁症状水平与疫苗接种行为之间可能存在的相关性。
419人参与了本研究，其中包括317名年龄为35.87±13.65标准差岁且接种了新冠疫苗的人，以及102名年龄为38.18±12.13标准差岁且决定不接种疫苗的人。
本研究使用了“十二脏量表”（DDS）、感知压力量表（PSS-10）以及状态-特质焦虑问卷（STAI-X2）。
在“十二脏量表”上，接种疫苗组的平均得分为23.29±10.10标准差，未接种疫苗组的平均得分为20.81±8.84标准差。对研究组的比较分析表明，在“十二脏量表”的总分及其分量表——权谋主义和自恋方面，均存在统计学上的显著差异。在精神病态分量表上没有差异。在分析作为特质的焦虑与用PSS-10量表评估的压力之间的关系时，在“十二脏量表”的总分以及权谋主义、精神病态和自恋的分量表上均未发现统计学上的显著相关性。
在本研究中，具有权谋主义和自恋特征的人更常决定接种新冠疫苗，而对于具有精神病态特征的人则无法确立这种关系。黑暗三联征（DD）中的厌恶型人格特质与不遵守与疫情相关的强制规范或卫生制度有关，但这并不排除对个人健康的关注。需要在社会和文化差异的背景下以及在促进健康行为领域对黑暗三联征进行进一步研究。
