The Spanish Short Dark Tetrad (SD4): Association With Personality and Psychological Problems.
Journal
Psicothema
ISSN: 1886-144X
Titre abrégé: Psicothema
Pays: Spain
ID NLM: 101189384
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2024
May 2024
Historique:
medline:
25
4
2024
pubmed:
25
4
2024
entrez:
25
4
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) is a recently developed instrument for assessing the "dark" personality traits of psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and sadism. We aimed to examine the SD4's psychometric properties, adapting it into Spanish and exploring its structure, gender invariance, reliability, concurrent validity, and nomological network. A sample of 668 adults ( = 26.36, = 10.64, 69.2% females) completed the SD4 and other self-report questionnaires. The results demonstrated sound indices of reliability and concurrent validity, an adequate four-factor structure, and support for gender invariance. Furthermore, most of the findings about the nomological network were in line with prior hypotheses: All four SD4 scales were associated with low levels of agreeableness and antagonism; psychopathy was also related to low conscientiousness, disinhibition and impulse-control problems; narcissism was positively associated with extraversion and negatively associated with internalizing symptoms; Machiavellianism was uncorrelated with impulsivity-related problems, which made it distinct from the psychopathy profile; finally, sadism showed a similar pattern of associations to psychopathy, albeit less strongly linked to impulsivity problems and externalizing behavior. Overall, the SD4 presents sound psychometric properties, although the overlap between psychopathy and sadism warrants some caution.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) is a recently developed instrument for assessing the "dark" personality traits of psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and sadism. We aimed to examine the SD4's psychometric properties, adapting it into Spanish and exploring its structure, gender invariance, reliability, concurrent validity, and nomological network.
METHOD
METHODS
A sample of 668 adults ( = 26.36, = 10.64, 69.2% females) completed the SD4 and other self-report questionnaires.
RESULTS
RESULTS
The results demonstrated sound indices of reliability and concurrent validity, an adequate four-factor structure, and support for gender invariance. Furthermore, most of the findings about the nomological network were in line with prior hypotheses: All four SD4 scales were associated with low levels of agreeableness and antagonism; psychopathy was also related to low conscientiousness, disinhibition and impulse-control problems; narcissism was positively associated with extraversion and negatively associated with internalizing symptoms; Machiavellianism was uncorrelated with impulsivity-related problems, which made it distinct from the psychopathy profile; finally, sadism showed a similar pattern of associations to psychopathy, albeit less strongly linked to impulsivity problems and externalizing behavior.
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Overall, the SD4 presents sound psychometric properties, although the overlap between psychopathy and sadism warrants some caution.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38661166
pii: 4845
doi: 10.7334/psicothema2023.172
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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