Self-Construal as a Predictor of Antagonistic Personality Traits.

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Moral Disengagement and Unethical Generative AI Use as the Chain Mediators Between Antagonistic Personality and Problematic Generative AI Use.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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Bonnie SimpsonDAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies, Faculty of Social Science, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3929-8935

Julie Aitken SchermerDAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies, Faculty of Social Science, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3469-7710

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Abstract

Self-construal refers to how individuals perceive themselves relative to others and includes dimensions of independence and interdependence. To understand antagonistic personality traits of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism, we investigate how these four traits (the Antagonistic or Dark Tetrad) are predicted by independent and interdependent self-construal using self-report measures from 861 Canadian university students. Direct entry linear regression found that after accounting for age and gender, each antagonistic trait was significantly predicted by independent and interdependent self-construal. As the pattern of regression weights differ for self-construal dimensions, we conclude that self-construal differentially predicts the Antagonistic Tetrad. These results add to work examining how self-construal is related to the Antagonistic Triad by the addition of sadism and investigating the predictive ability of self-construal.

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antagonistic tetradindependenceinterdependenceMachiavellianismnarcissismpsychopathysadismself-construal

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PMID41595032

DOI10.3390/bs16010091

PMCPMC12837425

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