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Constantinos M. Kokkinos; Ioanna Voulgaridou; Costas N. Tsouloupas – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
This study examined the link between academic majors and Dark Triad personality traits in 2,387 Greek university students. Utilizing Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling, we identified a general dark factor (D-factor) and three specific traits. Latent Profile Analysis revealed four personality clusters: self-centric personalities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Majors (Students), Decision Making
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Yan Zhou; Shuai Chen; Yaoyao Zhang; Ye Yang; Cheng Guo – School Mental Health, 2024
Studies have shown that socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP) is a critical predictor of depression. However, few studies have explored the mechanisms underlying the effects of SPP on depression in Chinese adolescents. Accordingly, the current study aims to explore the relationship between SPP and depression among Chinese adolescents, including…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Prediction
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Pedro Pechorro; Bruno Bonfá-Araujo; João Maroco; Mário R. Simões; Matt DeLisi – International Journal of Testing, 2024
The dark core of personality is a recent construct that encompasses the malevolent, antagonistic, and aversive side of human nature that represents the common inner core of dark personality traits. The aim of the present study is to develop a short, multidimensional, and invariant version of the dark core of personality D70 measure. Two samples of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Measures, Antisocial Behavior, Deception
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Peets, Kätlin; Hodges, Ernest Van Every – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Youth with greater levels of narcissism face a wide array of difficulties in interactions with others. However, there exists a curious lack of research on their close relationships, such as friendships. In this study, we examined associations between narcissism and friendship features over time. Participants were 261 eighth and ninth graders (112…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Interpersonal Relationship, Friendship
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Coleman, Sulamunn R. M.; Bernstein, Michael J.; Benfield, Jacob A.; Smyth, Joshua M. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objectives: This study explored associations between narcissistic grandiosity (including its component traits) and reported risky health behaviors in college students. Participants: College men and women (N = 122) participated between December 2015 and January 2016. Methods: Participants completed self-report measures of grandiosity, alcohol…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Health Behavior, Student Behavior, Drinking
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Osenk, Ivana; Johnson, Catherine; Wade, Tracey D. – School Mental Health, 2023
Perfectionism has adverse impacts on mental health and academic outcomes. We evaluated a 5-lesson classroom intervention for young adolescents delivered by teachers for impact on perfectionism, well-being, self-compassion, academic motivation and negative affect, at post-intervention and 3-month follow-up. Classes (N = 636 students, M[subscript…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Randomized Controlled Trials, Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement
Lee, Lindsay Ellis; Rinn, Anne N.; Crutchfield, Kacey; Ottwein, Jessica K.; Hodges, Jaret; Mun, Rachel U. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2021
The imposter phenomenon is characterized as difficulty internalizing success due to feelings of inauthenticity or phoniness despite contrary evidence of competence. Academically talented students in undergraduate honors programs could be more vulnerable to the imposter phenomenon as compared with other undergraduates because of experiences…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students, Honors Curriculum, Self Concept
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Haspolat, Namik Kemal; Yalçin, Ilhan – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The study aimed to investigate the correlations between psychological symptoms in high-achieving students with performance-oriented assessment, parental psychological control, parental achievement pressure, perfectionism, and academic expectation stress. The study group consisted of 1134 science high school students (658 females [57.1%], 486 males…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Stress Variables, Measures (Individuals), High School Students
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Farrell, Ann H.; Vaillancourt, Tracy – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Indirect aggression has been associated with antisocial personality traits like Machiavellianism, but there is a lack of evidence on their longitudinal development across adolescence. Therefore, the joint developmental trajectories of adolescent indirect aggression and Machiavellianism across 3 years of high school (Grades 10 to 12) were…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
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Vagos, Paula; Ribeiro da Silva, Diana; Macedo, Stephanie – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
This work evaluated the cross-sectional and longitudinal (i.e., over four months) impact of attachment to mother, father, and peers on three psychopathic traits (i.e., grandiose-manipulative, callous-unemotional, and impulsive-irresponsible) using a community adolescent sample, and if that impact was differentiated by gender. Though there is…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Peer Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
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Goldstein, Brandon L.; Mumper, Emma E.; Behari, Kriti; Gooding, Diane C.; Klein, Daniel N. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Social anhedonia, a tendency toward experiencing social stimuli as less positive or pleasurable, is associated with maladaptive personality traits, poor interpersonal functioning, and psychopathology, and is typically elevated in males compared with females. However, the correlates of social anhedonia in youth have not been well defined. In this…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Personality Problems, Correlation, Interpersonal Competence
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Fostervold Mathisen, T. F.; Sundgot-Borgen, C.; Anstensrud, B.; Sundgot-Borgen, J. – Research in Dance Education, 2022
A high frequency of mental health challenges and injuries in professional dancers necessitate a better understanding of the complexity of such symptoms, and to explore differences according to sex, academic year and performance levels. Professional dance students were recruited to evaluate symptoms of depression and anxiety (SCL-10), resilience…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)