ArticlePsychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law2022
Dysfunctional personality, Dark Triad and moral disengagement in incarcerated offenders: implications for recidivism and violence.
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- Factors Influencing Radicalization Process at Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels: A Systematic Literature Review.Behavioral sciences & the lawPooled it
- From Stable Traits to Dynamic Mechanisms: An Integrative Conceptual Model of Personality and Criminogenic Cognitions in the Incarcerated Population.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The Indirect Relationship Between Religious Practices and Egoism at Work Through Dark-Triad Traits? A Sample of Polish Employees.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Dark Triad, Depression, Anhedonia and Alexithymia: The Role of Sex Differences.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dark and bright personality dimensions as predictors of criminal behavior and recidivism.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Moral Disengagement in Adolescent Offenders: Its Relationship with Antisocial Behavior and Its Presence in Offenders of the Law and School Norms.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
It is particularly important to study the underlying processes of the dysfunctional personality patterns and of antisocial behaviour in the prison population, to identify them and to analyse the functioning of the psychological mechanisms involved in these constructs. The main goal of this study was to analyse dysfunctional personality patterns, Dark Triad, moral disengagement mechanisms and their relationship with violence and recidivism. Participants were 63 incarcerated offenders in two prisons. The study found a higher degree of moral disengagement in the participants convicted for crimes involving the use of violence. The results indicated that antisocial and aggressive-sadistic tendencies were the dysfunctional personality traits most strongly associated with moral disengagement. The binary logistic regression analysis showed that the variables, which influenced recidivism in criminal behaviour, were the use of violence in the crime committed, antisocial personality traits, and advantageous comparison and dehumanisation as mechanisms of moral disengagement.
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