ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2019
Addiction and the Dark Triad of Personality.
Review in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Machiavellianism in Healthcare: A Literature Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- A Systematic Review of Personality Disorders in Patients with Gambling Disorder.Clinics and practice · 2026Review
- Dark triad personality traits and online impulsive buying: the mediating role of social media addiction.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Impulsivity, psychopathy, and the dark triad: a Czech validation of the dirty dozen scale.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Predicting Juvenile Delinquency and Criminal Behavior in Adulthood Using Machine Learning.International journal of behavioral development · 2025Article
- Assessing Work Addiction: Validity of the Italian Version of the Work Addiction Risk Test.La Medicina del lavoro · 2025Article
- Psychopathy dimensions and substance use: evidence from a non-institutionalized adult population.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Impulsivity mediates the association between narcissism and substance-related problems beyond the degree of substance use: a longitudinal observational study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Observational
- Validity and reliability of the Persian version of the machiavellian personality scale and its association with social adjustment and risky behaviors in Iranian college students.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Exploring Substance Abuse and the Dark Tetrad in Health Sciences and Non-Health Sciences Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Dark Triad and Trait Emotional Intelligence as Predictors of Problematic Social Media use and Engagement: The Mediating Role of the Fear of Missing Out.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2023Article
- Personality Traits Associated with the Risk of Exercise Dependence in Ultraendurance Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Are We Getting High Cause the Thrill is Gone?Journal of addiction psychiatry · 2023Article
- How the Dark Triad associated with internet gaming disorder? The serial mediation of basic psychological needs satisfaction and negative coping styles.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Who Denigrates Today's Youth?: The Role of Age, Implicit Theories, and Sharing the Same Negative Trait.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder-Three levels of analysis for interdisciplinary integration.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- The Mediating Role of Gaming Disorder in the Effect of Narcissism on Happiness in Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Can neuroscience help to understand narcissism? A systematic review of an emerging field.Personality neuroscience · 2021Review
- Why Narcissism Reduces Distress: The Consequences of Narcissistic Intellectual Self-Confidence.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Dark Triad Traits and Risky Behaviours: Identifying Risk Profiles from a Person-Centred Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
In this article, we review associations between the Dark Triad of personality (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and addictive behaviors, both substance-related and non-substance-related. We summarize evidence from personality and clinical research and integrate it with prevailing models of addiction. Specifically, we discuss addictive behavior in the light of affect regulation, which is likely more relevant in narcissism, as well as inhibitory deficits, a putative mechanism in psychopathy. These mechanisms can be related to central motives of the respective personality constructs, such as stabilization of self-esteem in narcissism and impulsive stimulation seeking in psychopathy. We conclude that different mechanisms might lead to similar observable behavior in narcissism and psychopathy at earlier stages of the addiction cycle, but psychopathic disinhibition might be particularly relevant at later stages. This underpins the importance of considering personality factors for the understanding and treatment of addiction.
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