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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025

Using a serious game for a brief assessment of dark personality in the workplace.

María Patricia Navas, Elena Fernández-Del-Río, Pedro J Ramos-Villagrasa

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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María Patricia NavasFacultad de Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo, Departamento de Psicología y Sociología, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Elena Fernández-Del-RíoFacultad de Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo, Departamento de Psicología y Sociología, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Pedro J Ramos-VillagrasaFacultad de Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo, Departamento de Psicología y Sociología, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

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Abstract

Introduction: The assessment of dark personality using self-report questionnaires suffers limitations due to social desirability, bias, and response faking, particularly in organizational contexts. This research examines the psychometric properties of an extended version of VASSIP, a gamified assessment to briefly measure dark personality through an immersive situational judgment test (SJT). Methods: A sample of 395 Spanish workers (47.4% female, Results: The hard-gamified extension of VASSIP has a unidimensional factor structure with 5 items. Validity was supported by direct associations with Honesty-Humility, moral disengagement, task performance, and counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). Discussion: Therefore, this measure appears to be valuable for briefly assessing dark personality, although its predictive capacity could be optimized. Its situational approach offers a more nuanced understanding of how individuals manifest dark personality in workplace scenarios.

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counterproductive work behaviorsdark personalitygame-related assessmentgamificationgamified assessmentjob performance

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PMCPMC12883365

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