背景:短暗四元组(SD4)是最近开发的用于评估精神病的“黑暗”性格特征的工具,自恋,马基雅维利主义,和虐待狂。我们的目的是检查SD4的心理测量特性,将其改编成西班牙语并探索其结构,性别不变性,可靠性,并发有效性,和法律网络。
方法:668名成年人(=26.36,=10.64,69.2%的女性)完成了SD4和其他自我报告问卷。
结果:结果显示了可靠的信度和并发效度指标,适当的四因素结构,并支持性别不变性。此外,关于法律网络的大多数发现与先前的假设一致:所有四个SD4量表都与低水平的同意和拮抗有关;精神病也与低责任心有关,抑制和冲动控制问题;自恋与外向性正相关,与内化症状负相关;马基雅维利主义与冲动相关问题无关,这使得它与精神病特征不同;最后,施虐表现出与精神病相似的关联模式,尽管与冲动性问题和外化行为的联系不那么紧密。
结论:总体而言,SD4具有良好的心理测量特性,尽管精神病和虐待狂之间的重叠值得谨慎。
The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) is a recently developed instrument for assessing the \"dark\" personality traits of psychopathy, narcissism,
Machiavellianism, and sadism. We aimed to examine the SD4\'s psychometric properties, adapting it into Spanish and exploring its structure, gender invariance, reliability, concurrent validity, and nomological network.
A sample of 668 adults (Mage = 26.36, SD = 10.64, 69.2% females) completed the SD4 and other self-report questionnaires.
The results demonstrated sound indices of reliability and concurrent validity, an adequate four-factor structure, and support for gender invariance. Furthermore, most of the findings about the nomological network were in line with prior hypotheses: All four SD4 scales were associated with low levels of agreeableness and antagonism; psychopathy was also related to low conscientiousness, disinhibition and impulse-control problems; narcissism was positively associated with extraversion and negatively associated with internalizing symptoms;
Machiavellianism was uncorrelated with impulsivity-related problems, which made it distinct from the psychopathy profile; finally, sadism showed a similar pattern of associations to psychopathy, albeit less strongly linked to impulsivity problems and externalizing behavior.
Overall, the SD4 presents sound psychometric properties, although the overlap between psychopathy and sadism warrants some caution.