Everyday sadism as a dark personality trait
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Everyday sadism as a dark personality traitAutoría
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Ibáñez Ribes, Manuel Ignacio; Universitat Jaume I. Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Clínica i PsicobiologiaFecha de publicación
2022-07-20Editor
Universitat Jaume IResumen
In recent decades there has been a growing interest in the "dark" aspects of
personality. Initially three particularly socially harmful aspects were proposed,
subclinical psychopathy, subclinical narcissism and ... [+]
In recent decades there has been a growing interest in the "dark" aspects of
personality. Initially three particularly socially harmful aspects were proposed,
subclinical psychopathy, subclinical narcissism and Machiavellianism, the so-called
"dark triad" (Paulhus and Williams, 2002). More recently, a possible fourth dark
aspect, everyday sadism, has been included, forming the so-called "dark tetrad"
(Buckels, et al., 2013). Such aspect has been related to aversive behaviors such as
obtaining pleasure through suffering and/or dominance before others. This study
aims to examine whether sadism differs structurally from the rest of the traits of the
Dark tetrad, its pattern of associations with normal personality, and the ability to
predict certain behaviors harmful to society, beyond the traits that make up the Dark
triad. For this purpose, a survey was administered through a link to the google forms
platform, in which participants voluntarily completed different questionnaires of the
Dark tetrad SD4 (Ortet-Walker et al., 2022) and different scales that assess harmful
behaviors such as antisocial behavior, animal abuse, bullying and cyberbullying.
The exploratory factor analysis showed a four-factor structure, with most sadism
items saturating in a single factor differentiated from Machiavellianism, narcissism
and psychopathy factors. Likewise, the daily sadism scale showed a moderate-high
relationship with low agreeableness, and a low-medium relationship with low responsibility. Finally, multiple regression analyses showed that the most relevant
variables in the prediction of these dissocial behaviors such as animal abuse and
antisocial behavior were male sex, psychopathy and sadism. In reference to bullying
and cyberbullying, the variables age (conversely) and machiavellianism were also
found to be significant predictors. In short, our results suggest that everyday sadism
explains a significant part of the variability of behaviors such as bullying and
cyberbullying, antisocial behavior and animal abuse, beyond the other dark traits,
suggesting that this new dark trait is relevant to explain behaviors that are harmful to
society and, therefore, would justify the relevance of the so-called "Dark Tetrad". [-]
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Treball Final de Màster Universitari en Investigació en Cervell i Conducta (Pla de 2021). SBT024. Curs: 2021/2022
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