Structure of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Across Eight World Regions.
Radoslaw RogozaMagdalena Żemojtel-PiotrowskaPeter K JonasonJarosław PiotrowskiKeith W CampbellJochen E GebauerJohn MaltbyConstantine SedikidesMladen AdamovicByron G AdamsRebecca P AngRahkman ArdiKokou A AtitsogbeSergiu BaltatescuSnežana BilićBojana BodrožaJoel Gruneau BrulinHarshalini Yashita Bundhoo PoonoosamyTrawin ChaleeraktrakoonAlejandra Del Carmen DominguezSonya Dragova-KolevaSofián El-AstalWalaa Labib M EldesokiValdiney V GouveiaKatherine GundolfDzintra IliskoTomislav JukićShanmukh V KambleNarine KhachatryanMartina Klicperova-BakerMonika KovacsInna KozytskaAitor Larzabal FernandezKonrad LehmannXuejun LeiKadi LiikJessica McCainTaciano L MilfontAndreas NehrlichEvgeny OsinEmrah ÖzsoyJoonha ParkJano Ramos-DiazOgnjen RiđićAbdul QadirAdil SamekinHabib TiliouineRobert TomsikCharles S UmehKees van den BosAlain Van HielChristin-Melanie VauclairAnna WłodarczykPublished in: Assessment (2020)
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.