A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism.

IF 1 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Current Issues in Personality Psychology Pub Date : 2023-04-14 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI:10.5114/CIPP/162006

Julie Aitken Schermer

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Abstract

Background: Although people are familiar with loud automobiles, equipped with modified mufflers to increase the volume, it is unclear who is most attracted to these vehicles.

Participants and procedure: A sample of 529 (52% men) undergraduate business students were surveyed and were asked if they viewed their car as an extension of themselves, how much they thought loud cars were "cool", and if they would make their car louder with muffler modifications. Cronbach's α of the three car items was .76; therefore an aggregate was generated. Also a self-report measure of the dark tetrad was completed.

Results: Using linear regression, the car aggregate was predicted by being a man and having higher scores on psychopathy and sadism, with the model accounting for approximately 29% of the variance.

Conclusions: As car modifications are illegal in some countries, these findings may be of interest to those heading campaigns to halt these activities.

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如果男性在心理变态和虐待狂方面的得分较高，就会预示着他们渴望拥有一辆带改装消声器的响亮汽车。

背景：尽管人们对装有改装消声器以增加音量的大音量汽车并不陌生，但并不清楚谁最喜欢这些汽车：我们对 529 名（52% 为男性）商科本科生进行了抽样调查，询问他们是否认为汽车是自己的延伸，他们认为汽车声音大有多 "酷"，以及他们是否会通过改装消声器使自己的汽车声音更大。三个汽车项目的 Cronbach's α 值为 0.76，因此得出了一个综合结果。此外，还完成了一项关于黑暗四项的自我报告测量：结果：通过线性回归，男性以及在变态心理和虐待狂方面得分较高的人可以预测汽车综合指数，该模型约占方差的 29%：由于汽车改装在一些国家是非法的，这些研究结果可能会引起那些领导制止这些活动的人的兴趣。

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