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Investigating the Structural Fit of Four Dark Personality Traits (Sadism, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Antisociality) Based/ on The Pathological Dimensions of Personality with the Mediation of Psychological Flexibility in College Students
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Mahban Momtazi   , Javad Karimi * , Zahra Tanha , Mohsen Razani |
| Malayer University, Malayer, Iran , j.karimi@malayeru.ac.ir |
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Introduction: The four dark personality traits are a relatively new and integrated model formed by the combination of different personality theories. The present study was conducted to investigate the structural fit of dark personality traits based on the pathological dimensions of personality with the mediation of psychological flexibility in college students.
Methods This research is of the structural equations type and its statistical population was all students of the Islamic Azad University of Borujard branch in the academic year 2023-2024, 230 people were selected by the available sampling method. The data were used from the Personality Pathological Dimensions Questionnaire (PID-5-BF) by Kruger et al. (2012), and Acceptance and Action (AAQ-II) by Bond et al. Pearson correlation test and SPSS-24 and Amos-24 software were used to analyze the data.
Results: The model had a good fit. The results confirmed the direct effect of the pathological dimensions of personality on the three dark traits of narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism, and the intensity of the indirect effect of the pathological dimensions of personality on psychological flexibility was strong (β=0.76). The mediating role of psychological flexibility was confirmed in the relationship between the pathological dimensions of personality and the dark trait of psychopathy (P<0.05).
Conclusions: The pathological dimensions of personality were directly effective on narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism and indirectly on psychopathy, and psychological flexibility played an important role between dark personality traits and pathological dimensions.
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| Keywords: Pathological Dimensions of Personality, Dark Traits of Personality, Psychological Flexibility. |
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Received: 2024/05/13 | Accepted: 2024/11/30 | Published: 2024/11/30 | ePublished: 2024/11/30
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