Invastigate psychological well-being, happiness and emotion regulation in dark triad personality tendencies

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Urmia University

2 Allameh Tabatabaei University

Abstract

Narcissistic, psychopat and Machiavellianism are three components of dark personality traits. Dark triad traits in recent years has attracted much attention. The aim of this study was to investigate happiness, psychological well-being and emotion regulation in people with dark triad personality tendencies. For this purpose, first, 390 students of UrmiaUniversity selected through a multistage cluster sampling. After the initial data analysis, 60 of them, based on Z score in Dark triad scale were chosen, finally, in order to test the hypothesis of this study, participants were completed in happiness, psychological well-being and emotion regulation. Data were analyzed by using Multivariate analysis of variance, univariate and post hoc tests. The results showed that there were significant differences between the dark triad personality groups in the dimensions of psychological well-being and emotion regulation; in happiness, no significant differences were found between personality groups in happiness score. but, individuals with Machiavellianism had higher scores in some positive emotion regulation strategies, and Psychopaths have lower scores. The psychopaths had higher scores in the negative strategy of others blaming and low score in the components of independence. These results indicate that components of psychological well-being and emotional regulation can be influenced by dark triad traits.

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Journal of Psychological Studies
Volume 13, Issue 2 - Serial Number 47
September 2017
Pages 25-42

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