Dark Time Matter: Dark Character Profiles and Time Perspective
| Autor: | Danilo Garcia, Fernando Renee González Moraga, Max Rapp-Ricciardi, Patricia Rosenberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Dark triad
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Psychopathy 050109 social psychology General Medicine Equifinality medicine.disease 050105 experimental psychology Character (mathematics) medicine Narcissism Trait Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology Machiavellianism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Psychology. :63-79 |
| ISSN: | 2152-7199 2152-7180 |
| DOI: | 10.4236/psych.2018.91005 |
| Popis: | Background: Humans seem to have a unique ability to consciously organize the flow of time (i.e., past, present, and future) and to intentionally choose goals and values (i.e., character: self, others, the universe). These two parts of human awareness have implications for individuals’ relation to a society that will flourish or perish. In fact, a balanced time perspective is suggested as necessary for the experience of well-being and optimal societal functioning. Nevertheless, low character development might be expressed as a Dark Triad: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. In the present study, we aimed to investigate if individuals differ in their outlook on time depending on their dark character profiles. Method: We re-analyzed data from a previous study in which participants (N = 338) responded to the Short Dark Triad Inventory and the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. However, here we use the Dark Cube (Garcia, 2017a), a model of malevolent character based on Cloninger’s biopsychosocial theory of personality and in the assumption of a Dark Triad, thus, clustering individuals in eight profiles (i.e., the combination of high/low in three malevolent character traits). Results: The results for each trait suggest multi-finality (i.e., same antecedents, different outcomes) and equifinality (i.e., different antecedents, same outcomes). For example, individuals high in narcissism presented a balanced time perspective when manipulative behavior was also high and psychopathy was low. Conclusions: In certain conditions, malevolent character is associated to a balanced time perspective. Thus, suggesting that in order to understand well-being and optimal societal functioning, we need to look at human awareness in relation to both time (i.e., past, present, future) and space (i.e., character: self, others, the universe). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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