Abstract
In three studies, we tried to create a novel scale within the existing Big Five Inventory 2 (BFI-2) structure to measure prosocial vs. antisocial personality traits, like the Dark Triad and honesty-humility. While our new scale converged strongly with dark personality and honesty-humility scales, we failed to establish sufficient discriminant validity vis-a-vis the existing BFI-2 agreeableness domain. Instead, we found that dark traits and honesty-humility were best measured as a facet of agreeableness that correlated strongly with other agreeableness facets and established measures of dark traits and honesty-humility. These findings suggest that honesty-humility and dark personality traits can be measured as opposite facets of a broader agreeableness-antagonism continuum when adopting the BFI-2 (Big Five) domain structure.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 104147 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
| Journal | Journal of Research in Personality |
| Volume | 96 |
| Early online date | 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Data collection and preliminary analysis were sponsored by a grant of the Abbas Fund awarded to Jaap Denissen.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s)
Funding
Data collection and preliminary analysis were sponsored by a grant of the Abbas Fund awarded to Jaap Denissen.
Keywords
- Agreeableness
- Big Five
- Dark personality
- Honesty-humility
- Prosocial and antisocial behavior