ArticlePersonality and individual differences2022
Dark Tetrad and COVID-19 protective measures: Mediating effects of risk-taking tendencies.
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- COVID vaccination and economic game decisions: The role of analytical thinking.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- Impact of Dark Triad personality traits on COVID-19 vaccination uptake and prevention efforts: insights from the European Covid Survey (ECOS).BMC public health · 2025Article
- Attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccine mandate: The role of psychological characteristics and partisan self-identification.Personality and individual differences · 2023Article
- Dark Triad and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: the role of conspiracy beliefs and risk perception.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Post-truth epistemic beliefs rooted in the Dark Factor of Personality are associated with higher COVID-19 vaccination refusal.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Machiavellianism and psychopathy affect sleep quality in people with affective disorders and mentally healthy individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Psychological variables related to decision making for mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic.Current issues in personality psychology · 2023Article
- What Is the Role of Psychological Factors in Long COVID Syndrome? Latent Class Analysis in a Sample of Patients Recovered from COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Moral Disengagement, Dark Triad and Face Mask Wearing during the COVID-19 Pandemic.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2022Article
- Authoritarianism, psychopathy, and resistance to wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic: A partial replication and extension of key findings.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Previous research has shown that Dark Triad traits are tied to non-compliance, while there is not enough research regarding sadism. As dark traits are related to risk-taking behaviors, we hypothesized that proneness to risk-taking could be a mediating mechanism explaining the relation between dark traits and non-compliance with protective measures. Sample comprised of 348 participants (77% women) who completed the Hateful Eight (a multifaceted Short Dark Tetrad scale), DOSPERT for measuring different aspects of risk-taking tendencies, and questions regarding frequency of compliance with protection measures and vaccination. Results showed that recklessness (aspect of psychopathy) and violent voyeurism (aspect of sadism) had negative effects on compliance with protective measures. These relations were fully explained by health/safety risk tendency. Deviousness (aspect of Machiavellianism) contributed to unwillingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 independently of risk-taking tendencies. Furthermore, selection of particular vaccine was not associated with dark traits, but those who selected all vaccines (both EU-approved and non-approved) had higher scores on social risks compared to those who selected only non-approved vaccines. Additionally, those who selected only EU-approved vaccines showed lower scores on ethical risks compared to the rest of the participants who were vaccinated or applied for vaccination.
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