The Dark Triad, happiness and subjective well-being

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 17-22

  Egan, Vincent ^a   Chan, Stephanie ^b   Shorter, Gillian W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Home Team Behavioural Sciences Centre Home Team Academy   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark Triad; Five factor model; Happiness; Latent profile analysis; Machiavellianism; Narcissism; Psychopathy; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901287277     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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