| Literature DB >> 33732925 |
Janek Musek1, Darja Kobal Grum1.
Abstract
The article addresses the question, which personality dimensions mostly contribute to the positive human functioning, especially to wellbeing and prosocial values. As we predicted, the three dimensions from the Big Five factors are mostly opposed to the negative personality characteristics known as Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy), namely emotional stability (low neuroticism), agreeableness and conscientiousness. The results demonstrated negative relationship between these personality dimensions (labeled Bright Triad) and Dark Triad. Both Dark and Bright Triad dimensions are substantially loaded with one single bipolar latent dimension, the Dark versus Bright Personality. The results also confirmed the substantial connections of the Bright Triad dimensions to the wellbeing and the values. The Bright Triad dimensions are positively associated with general life satisfaction and traditional, social, cognitive and democratic values and tend to be negatively associated with status or power values. On the other side, Dark Triad dimensions are positively related to the status values and tend to be negatively related to the prosocial values.Entities:
Keywords: Agreeableness; Conscientiousness; Dark triad; Emotional stability; Personality; Positive psychology; Values; Wellbeing
Year: 2021 PMID: 33732925 PMCID: PMC7938243 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06370
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Heliyon ISSN: 2405-8440
Loadings of factors extracted from two-factor and one-factor solution on the Big Five dimensions.
| 2 factors | 1 factor | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Conscientiousness | .73 | .10 | .64 |
| Extraversion | .34 | .75 | .72 |
| Emotional Stability | .72 | .32 | .77 |
| Openness | -.08 | .85 | .44 |
| Agreeableness | .72 | -.06 | .54 |
| Eigenvalues | 2.01 | 1.08 | |
| % of variance | 34 | 28 | 40 |
| Interpreted as | Stability | Plasticity | GFP |
Means, standard deviations, and correlations between variables in the research model.
| Variable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Conscientiousness | 0.00 | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Extraversion | -0.00 | 1.00 | .28∗∗ | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Emotional stability | -0.00 | 1.00 | .36∗∗ | .41∗∗ | |||||||||||||||||
| 4. Openness | -0.00 | 1.00 | .06 | .35∗∗ | .14∗∗ | ||||||||||||||||
| 5. Agreeableness | -0.00 | 1.00 | .26∗∗ | .13∗∗ | .33∗∗ | .08 | |||||||||||||||
| 6. Machiavellianism | 11.68 | 6.83 | -.23∗∗ | .10∗ | -.27∗∗ | -.07 | -.44∗∗ | ||||||||||||||
| 7. Psychopathy | 10.74 | 5.85 | -.22∗∗ | .00 | -.14∗∗ | .03 | -.46∗∗ | .47∗∗ | |||||||||||||
| 8. Narcissism | 17.61 | 8.25 | -.19∗∗ | .12∗ | -.25∗∗ | .02 | -.32∗∗ | .55∗∗ | .35∗∗ | ||||||||||||
| 9. Wellbeing | 22.07 | 6.85 | .25∗∗ | .33∗∗ | .39∗∗ | .16∗∗ | .10∗ | -.05 | -.09 | -.09∗ | |||||||||||
| 10. Sensual values | 69.71 | 17.31 | .06 | .21∗∗ | .04 | -.05 | .09∗ | .02 | .05 | -.02 | .02 | ||||||||||
| 11. Security values | 79.46 | 17.42 | .18∗∗ | .03 | .02 | -.16∗∗ | .14∗∗ | -.04 | -.06 | -.03 | -.02 | .71∗∗ | |||||||||
| 12. Status values | 35.29 | 19.83 | -.01 | .22∗∗ | -.13∗∗ | -.07 | -.17∗∗ | .33∗∗ | .19∗∗ | .40∗∗ | -.03 | .50∗∗ | .31∗∗ | ||||||||
| 13. Patriotic values | 33.47 | 23.86 | .06 | .14∗∗ | .06 | -.17∗∗ | .06 | .03 | -.04 | -.02 | -.00 | .40∗∗ | .33∗∗ | .47∗∗ | |||||||
| 14. Democratic values | 70.21 | 21.40 | .06 | -.02 | .00 | -.01 | .29∗∗ | -.15∗∗ | -.14∗∗ | -.13∗∗ | -.06 | .52∗∗ | .62∗∗ | .19∗∗ | .35∗∗ | ||||||
| 15. Social values | 81.34 | 17.45 | .15∗∗ | .08 | .04 | -.14∗∗ | .20∗∗ | -.09∗ | -.14∗∗ | -.09∗ | .04 | .68∗∗ | .72∗∗ | .34∗∗ | .35∗∗ | .52∗∗ | |||||
| 16. Traditional values | 73.55 | 16.67 | .22∗∗ | .03 | .08 | -.14∗∗ | .23∗∗ | -.18∗∗ | -.17∗∗ | -.15∗∗ | .01 | .58∗∗ | .65∗∗ | .28∗∗ | .34∗∗ | .60∗∗ | .71∗∗ | ||||
| 17. Cultural values | 56.51 | 21.01 | .06 | .12∗∗ | .09∗ | .31∗∗ | .09∗ | -.09∗ | .00 | -.07 | .06 | .58∗∗ | .47∗∗ | .43∗∗ | .33∗∗ | .50∗∗ | .46∗∗ | .48∗∗ | |||
| 18. Cognitive values | 73.83 | 19.19 | .11∗ | .01 | .09∗ | .12∗ | .12∗∗ | -.13∗∗ | -.03 | -.09 | .05 | .49∗∗ | .50∗∗ | .27∗∗ | .25∗∗ | .54∗∗ | .53∗∗ | .54∗∗ | .58∗∗ | ||
| 19. Actualization values | 72.38 | 16.02 | .17∗∗ | .10∗ | .03 | .05 | .04 | -.01 | -.00 | .03 | .05 | .64∗∗ | .59∗∗ | .50∗∗ | .33∗∗ | .46∗∗ | .60∗∗ | .66∗∗ | .61∗∗ | .55∗∗ | |
| 20. Religious values | 28.97 | 28.90 | .03 | .00 | .02 | -.03 | .11∗ | -.01 | -.13∗∗ | .03 | .00 | .10∗ | .14∗∗ | .20∗∗ | .33∗∗ | .17∗∗ | .20∗∗ | .13∗∗ | .21∗∗ | .21∗∗ | .14∗∗ |
Note. ∗ indicates p < .05; ∗∗ indicates p < .01. M and SD are used to represent mean and standard deviation, respectively.
Figure 1Confirmatory model of 6 Bright and Dark Triad variables. Confirmatory factor analysis clearly confirmed hypothesized bipolar personality dimension (bright versus dark personality) with Bright Triad and Dark Triad variables at the opposite poles.
Regression results using wellbeing as the criterion.
| Fit | Change in Fit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 | |||||||
| (Intercept) | 22.07∗∗ | 0.29 | |||||
| Conscientiousness | 0.89∗∗ | 0.32 | 0.13 | .01 | .25∗∗ | ||
| Emotional stability | 2.51∗∗ | 0.33 | 0.37 | .11 | .39∗∗ | ||
| Agreeableness | -0.39 | 0.31 | -0.06 | .00 | .10∗ | ||
| Model 2 | |||||||
| (Intercept) | 22.09∗∗ | 0.88 | |||||
| Conscientiousness | 0.88∗∗ | 0.32 | 0.13 | .01 | .25∗∗ | ||
| Emotional stability | 2.58∗∗ | 0.33 | 0.38 | .11 | .39∗∗ | ||
| Agreeableness | -0.38 | 0.36 | -0.05 | .00 | .10∗ | ||
| Machiavellianism | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.10 | .01 | -.05 | ||
| Narcissism | -0.02 | 0.04 | -0.02 | .00 | -.09∗ | ||
| Psychopathy | -0.08 | 0.06 | -0.07 | .00 | -.09 | ||
| Δ | |||||||
Note. ∗ indicates p < .05; ∗∗ indicates p < .01. A significant b-weight indicates the beta-weight and semi-partial correlation are also significant. b represents unstandardized regression weights; SE represents the standard error of the unstandardized regression weights; beta indicates the beta-weights or standardized regression weights; sr represents the semi-partial correlation squared; r represents the zero-order correlation.
Figure 2The means of estimated importance of 11 value orientations for the groups of Bright Triad persons (darklow.brighthigh) and Dark Triad persons (darkhigh.brightlow).