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Our Vulnerable Dark Side—Two Laboratory Approaches
The Dark Triad of personality has been associated with aggression against others as a reaction to perceived provocations. However, previous work has also shown that such responsive aggression even occurs if it means harming oneself. The first of two laboratory studies aimed to investigate whether th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8070541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33918577 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083941 |
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description | The Dark Triad of personality has been associated with aggression against others as a reaction to perceived provocations. However, previous work has also shown that such responsive aggression even occurs if it means harming oneself. The first of two laboratory studies aimed to investigate whether this relation between the Dark Triad and self-harming behavior also occurs in situations where no others are affected but self-harm is likely. The second laboratory study considered two different settings in a within-participants design in order to analyze the stability of self-harming behavior and to what extent the Dark Triad constructs influence this behavior. The sample for study 1 consisted of 151 students (45.7% female) with a mean age of 21.40 years (SD = 2.19); the sample for study 2 consisted of 251 students (76.0% female) with a mean age of 22.21 years (SD = 3.90). Aside from the Dark Triad’s common core, depending on how self-harm was triggered (ego-threat (mainly narcissism), being alone with one’s own thoughts (mainly psychopathy), or reward condition (mainly Machiavellianism)), the Dark Triad traits differed in their responsiveness but were stable over the last two conditions, thereby suggesting a vulnerable side of the Dark Triad. |
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spelling | pubmed-80705412021-04-26 Our Vulnerable Dark Side—Two Laboratory Approaches Lämmle, Lena Ziegler, Matthias Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The Dark Triad of personality has been associated with aggression against others as a reaction to perceived provocations. However, previous work has also shown that such responsive aggression even occurs if it means harming oneself. The first of two laboratory studies aimed to investigate whether this relation between the Dark Triad and self-harming behavior also occurs in situations where no others are affected but self-harm is likely. The second laboratory study considered two different settings in a within-participants design in order to analyze the stability of self-harming behavior and to what extent the Dark Triad constructs influence this behavior. The sample for study 1 consisted of 151 students (45.7% female) with a mean age of 21.40 years (SD = 2.19); the sample for study 2 consisted of 251 students (76.0% female) with a mean age of 22.21 years (SD = 3.90). Aside from the Dark Triad’s common core, depending on how self-harm was triggered (ego-threat (mainly narcissism), being alone with one’s own thoughts (mainly psychopathy), or reward condition (mainly Machiavellianism)), the Dark Triad traits differed in their responsiveness but were stable over the last two conditions, thereby suggesting a vulnerable side of the Dark Triad. MDPI 2021-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8070541/ /pubmed/33918577 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083941 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lämmle, Lena Ziegler, Matthias Our Vulnerable Dark Side—Two Laboratory Approaches |
title | Our Vulnerable Dark Side—Two Laboratory Approaches |
title_full | Our Vulnerable Dark Side—Two Laboratory Approaches |
title_fullStr | Our Vulnerable Dark Side—Two Laboratory Approaches |
title_full_unstemmed | Our Vulnerable Dark Side—Two Laboratory Approaches |
title_short | Our Vulnerable Dark Side—Two Laboratory Approaches |
title_sort | our vulnerable dark side—two laboratory approaches |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8070541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33918577 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18083941 |
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