The Dark Triad of personality in adolescence: Psychometric properties of a concise measure and associations with adolescent adjustment from a multi-informant perspective

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 53, Issue , 2014, Pages 84-92

  Klimstra, Theo A ^a   Sijtsema, Jelle J ^a   Henrichs, Jens ^a   Cima, Maaike ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Dark Triad; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907482970     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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