The Dark Triad of Personality, Big Five Personality Model and violent behavior in intimate relationships of young people

Kunc, Patricija. (2015). The Dark Triad of Personality, Big Five Personality Model and violent behavior in intimate relationships of young people. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Psychology. [mentor Arambašić, Lidija].

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Abstract

The Dark Triad of Personality contains three empirically overlapping components, machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. They entail in a socially malevolent character with behavior tendencies toward self-promotion, emotional coldness, duplicity, and agressiveness. The Big Five Model of Personality was originated from Costa and McCrae's, (1987) theory of personality and it contains five basic dimensions of personality; extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience. The goal of this research has been to examine the connection between the components of the Dark Triad of Personality and the Big Five Personality dimensions with the probability of engaging in violent behavior in intimate relationsips of joung people; and to examine whether there are specific forms of connection and expressiveness of theese variables for joung men and women. Using an online survey 1160 people, 853 joung women and 307 joung men, from the population participated in the research. The results have shown that men on average have higher results on machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy than women, but women have on average higher results on conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience than men. Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism and psychopathy were significant predictors of violent behavior in romantic relationships of joung people for both men and women. Narcissism was predictive for violent behavior only in female sample. Machiavellianism had no significant connection with violent behavior for men or women.

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