Structure of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Across Eight World Regions

Radosław Rogoza, Magdalena Anna Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Peter Karl Jonason, Jarosław P. Piotrowski, Keith W. Campbell, Jochen E. Gebauer, John Maltby, Constantine Sedikides, Mladen Adamovic, Byron Gregory Adams

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Rebecca Pei-Hui Ang, Rahkman Ardi, Kokou Amenyona Atitsogbe, Sergiu Bălţătescu, Snežana Bilić, Bojana Bodroža, Joel Gruneau Brulin, Harshalini Y. Bundhoo, Trawin Chaleeraktrakoon, Alejandra Del Carmen Dominguez, Sonya Dragova‐Koleva, Sofián El‐Astal, Walaa Labib M. Eldesoki, Valdiney Velôso Gouveia, Katherine Gundolf, Dzintra Iliško, Tomislav Jukić, Shanmukh Vasant Kamble, Narine Khachatryan, Martina Klicperová‐Baker, Mónika Erika Kovács, Inna Kozytska, Aitor Larzabal Fernández, Konrad Lehmann, Xuejun Lei, Kadi Liik, Jessica McCain, Taciano L. Milfont, Andreas D. Nehrlich, Евгений Николаевич Осин, Emrah Özsoy, Joonha Park, Jano Ramos‐Diaz, Ognjen Riđić, Abdul Qadir, Adil Samekin, Habib Tiliouine, Robert Tomšík, Charles S. Umeh, Kees van den Bos, Alain Van Hiel, Christin‐Melanie Vauclair, Anna Włodarczyk

2020

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DOI 10.1177/1073191120922611
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Abstract

The Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) has garnered intense attention over the past 15 years. We examined the structure of these traits' measure-the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen (DTDD)-in a sample of 11,488 participants from three W.E.I.R.D. (i.e., North America, Oceania, Western Europe) and five non-W.E.I.R.D. (i.e., Asia, Middle East, non-Western Europe, South America, sub-Saharan Africa) world regions. The results confirmed the measurement invariance of the DTDD across participants' sex in all world regions, with men scoring higher than women on all traits (except for psychopathy in Asia, where the difference was not significant). We found evidence for metric (and partial scalar) measurement invariance within and between W.E.I.R.D. and non-W.E.I.R.D. world regions. The results generally support the structure of the DTDD.