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A meta-analysis of the dark triad and work behavior: a social exchange perspective
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We reviewed studies of the Dark Triad (DT) personality traits--Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy-and meta-analytically examined their implications for job performance and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). Relations among the DT traits and behaviors were extracted from original reports published between 1951 and 2011 of 245 independent samples (N = 43,907). We found that reductions in the quality of job performance were consistently associated with increases in Machiavellianism and psychopathy and that CWB was associated with increases in all 3 components of the DT, but that these associations were moderated by such contextual factors as authority and culture. Multivariate analyses demonstrated that the DT explains moderate amounts of the variance in counterproductivity, but not job performance. The results showed that the 3 traits are positively related to one another but are sufficiently distinctive to warrant theoretical and empirical partitioning.
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“Nevertheless, the DT traits are significantly inter-correlated (18) with considerable convergent correlations between subscales (19).”
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“At first sight, the comparatively low D saturation for Narcissism may seem counterintuitive, given that Narcissism has repeatedly been shown to correlate substantially with the remaining components of the Dark Triad (e.g., Muris et al., 2017; O’Boyle et al., 2012).”
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- Authors
- O'Boyle, E. H., Forsyth, D. R., Banks, G. C., & McDaniel, M. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Richmond (US)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 2012-05
- Volume
- 97
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 557-579
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W2005207520
- Cited by
- 1,331
- References
- 250
- Citations by year
- 2026: 94 · 2025: 109 · 2024: 97 · 2023: 144 · 2022: 111 · 2021: 120 · 2020: 171 · 2019: 110 · 2018: 94 · 2017: 87 · 2016: 65 · 2015: 43 · 2014: 49 · 2013: 26 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 4.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Applied Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Keywords
- Dark Triad, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, employee performance, counterproductive work behavior, social exchange theory, workplace authority, organizational culture, personality traits
- MeSH terms
- Antisocial Personality Disorder, Employee Discipline, Employment, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Machiavellianism, Narcissism
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