ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Personality Traits as Predictors of Malevolent Creative Ideation in Offenders.
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- Antecedents of malevolent creativity: a meta-analysis of personality and press predictors.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Self-Reports of Past Malevolent Behavior and Narcissism as Predictors of Malevolent Creativity on a Real-World Ideation Task.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- The relationship between parental technoference and malevolent creative behavior among adolescents: the mediating role of phubbing and the moderating role of mindfulness.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Childhood trauma and malevolent creativity: the mediating role of positive psychological capital and gender differences.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of personality traits and the mediating role of self-efficacy and self-control on criminogenic behavior among Romanian inmates: a psychological perspective.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Field dependent-independent cognitive style as a predictor of malevolent creativity: a multifaceted approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Generating, evaluating, endorsing, and implementing malevolent creativity: a malevolent idea journey.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Smartphone addiction and malevolent creativity-the mediating role of psychological capital and the moderating role of self-concept clarity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Darkness within: The Internal Mechanism between Dark Triad and Malevolent Creativity.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
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Abstract
Malevolent creativity, which can be defined as creativity that is deliberately planned to damage others, is a concept that explains how the capacity to generate novel and effective outcomes (creativity) may, on occasion, be misapplied. The present study used 130 male inmates of the Oradea Maximum Security Penitentiary in Romania to explore the ability of a set of personality variables (the dark triad, self-efficacy, and self-esteem) to predict malevolent creative ideation. The findings indicate that Machiavellianism and self-efficacy were significant predictors of malevolent creative ideation in the form of lying, while only Machiavellianism was a significant predictor of malevolent creative ideation in the form of hurting people. In addition, the present study found significant differences among subgroups in the sample, with more experienced offenders showing higher levels of malevolent creative ideation.
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