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Selfish personality – relations between HEXACO and the Dark Triad

The Dark Triad represents a constellation of three personality traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy, reflecting a socially destructive character with behavioral tendencies towards manipulation, deception, self-promotion, emotional callousness and aggression. Although each of the Dark Triad traits has some specific characteristic, all three share a common core, largely defined by Honesty-Humility from the HEXACO model, a trait which explicitly contrasts prosocial and self-interested behavior. Selfishness is widely regarded as an excessive focus on one’s own welfare, regardless of the well- being of others, and fits well to the description of the Dark Triad constellation. However, selfishness can have several forms, and the direct relations with the Dark Triad traits and specific forms of selfishness have not been directly assessed up to date. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relations between the basic and the dark personality traits and selfishness, and whether the Dark Triad traits have a contribution above and beyond the HEXACO traits in explanation of specific forms of selfishness. Data were collected on a sample of 404 participants (51% of females) from general population from Serbia, using HEXACO-60, MachIV, Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire, Levenson Psychopathy Scale measuring primary and secondary psychopathy, and Selfishness Questionnaire measuring Adaptive Selfishness (caring not just for the self, but also for the close ones), Egocentric Selfishness (a single-minded attentional focus on the self) and Pathological Selfishness (harming others for self-advancement). The results showed that selfishness and dark traits shared 70% of common variance, while selfishness and basic traits shared 46% of common variance. Results of the hierarchical regression analyses showed that Honesty-Humility was the most prominent predictor among HEXACO traits, which, taken together, explained 31 to 38% of the selfishness variance. The Dark Triad explained 11% of egocentric, 16% of adaptive and 18% of pathological selfishness above and beyond the HEXACO traits. Machiavellianism emerged as the significant predictor of all selfishness forms, while narcissism was related to egocentric, and psychopathy to pathological selfishness. These findings shed some light on selfish personality and could indicate including selfishness into "dark umbrella".

selfish personality ; HEXACO ; Dark Triad

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