{"title":"The construction of the Dark Triad traits and the relationships with ageism: A three-year longitudinal study of adults aged 18–60 years in China","authors":"Qiming Li , Haiyan Xu , Xuemei Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2024.112928","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the Dark Triad traits and temporal associations with Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and ageism across 3 years. A cross-lagged analysis of 3 waves of data was conducted using a Chinese sample (<em>N</em> = 613, aged 18–60 years). The analysis revealed a mutual cumulative effect of Machiavellianism and psychopathy in both the young adult group and the middle-aged group. However, narcissism was relatively independent, and only psychopathy positively predicted narcissism in the young adult group. Machiavellianism and psychopathy at T1 positively predicted ageism at T2, and Machiavellianism and psychopathy at T2 positively predicted ageism at T3 in both groups. There were positive bidirectional associations between Machiavellianism and ageism at each point (T1, T2, T3) in the young adult group only. However, the prediction of ageism based on narcissism was unstable with a negligible predictive effect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"233 ","pages":"Article 112928"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Personality and Individual Differences","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692400388X","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the Dark Triad traits and temporal associations with Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and ageism across 3 years. A cross-lagged analysis of 3 waves of data was conducted using a Chinese sample (N = 613, aged 18–60 years). The analysis revealed a mutual cumulative effect of Machiavellianism and psychopathy in both the young adult group and the middle-aged group. However, narcissism was relatively independent, and only psychopathy positively predicted narcissism in the young adult group. Machiavellianism and psychopathy at T1 positively predicted ageism at T2, and Machiavellianism and psychopathy at T2 positively predicted ageism at T3 in both groups. There were positive bidirectional associations between Machiavellianism and ageism at each point (T1, T2, T3) in the young adult group only. However, the prediction of ageism based on narcissism was unstable with a negligible predictive effect.
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Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.