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Making and maintaining relationships through the prism of the dark triad traits: A longitudinal social network study
Author(s) -
Rogoza Radosław,
Danieluk Barnaba,
Kowalski Christopher Marcin,
Kwiatkowska Katarzyna,
Kwiatkowska Maria Magdalena
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/jopy.12585
Subject(s) - machiavellianism , dark triad , psychopathy , narcissism , psychology , developmental psychology , longitudinal study , big five personality traits , social psychology , triad (sociology) , social relation , personality , psychoanalysis , statistics , mathematics
Abstract Objective We investigated how Dark Triad traits influence the development and maintenance of social relations. Method Participants completed the Short Dark Triad questionnaire and a measure of social relations at three time points: at the beginning of their first year in high school, 3 months later, and at the end of their first year. We investigated whether the Dark Triad traits are stable over time using Multilevel Modeling ( N = 265; 59.6% girls), and how Dark Triad traits predict incoming and outgoing agentic and communal relations using Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models ( N = 192; 60.4% girls). Results Overall, the Dark Triad traits were stable over a one‐year period. Narcissism did not predict an increase in communal and agentic relations in the short‐term, but predicted slightly less incoming communal and more agentic relations in the long‐term. In the short‐term, Machiavellianism predicted a small increase while psychopathy predicted a small decrease in the incoming agentic and communal relations. In the long‐term, however, neither Machiavellianism nor psychopathy was a significant predictor of any incoming relations. Conclusions Our results shed new light on the dynamics of making and maintaining social relations through the prism of the Dark Triad traits.