The role of Machiavellian views and tactics in psychopathology

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 94, Issue , 2016, Pages 72-81

  Monaghan, Conal ^a   Bizumic, Boris ^a   Sellbom, Martin ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Machiavellianism; Multidimensionality; Personality; Psychopathology; Structural equation modelling (SEM); Two dimensional Mach IV (TDM IV)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954287326     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.01.002     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Ahmed S.M.S., Stewart R.A.C. Factor analysis of the Machiavellian scale. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal 1981, 9:113-115. 10.2224/sbp.1981.9.1.113.
2. Ain S.A., Carre A., Fantini-Hauwel C., Baudouin J.-Y., Besche-Richard C. What is the emotional core of the multidimensional Machiavellian personality trait?. Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences 2013, 4(454):1-8. 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00454.
3. Andrew J., Cooke M., Muncer S.J. The relationship between empathy and Machiavellianism: An alternative to empathizing-systemizing theory. Personality and Individual Differences 2008, 44:1203-1211. 10.1016/j.paid.2007.11.014.
4. Austin E.J., Farrelly D., Black C., Moore H. Emotional intelligence, Machiavellianism and emotional manipulation: Does EI have a dark side?. Personality and Individual Differences 2007, 43:179-189. 10.1016/j.paid.2006.11.019.
5. Barlow D.H., Sauer-Zavala S., Carl J.R., Bullis J.R., Ellard K.K. The nature, diagnosis, and treatment of neuroticism back to the future. Clinical Psychological Science 2014, 2:344-365. 10.1177/2167702613505532.
6. Bauer M.S., Vojta C., Kinosian B., Altshuler L., Glick H. The Internal State Scale: replication of its discriminating abilities in a multisite, public sector sample. Bipolar Disorders 2000, 2:340-346. 10.1034/j.1399-5618.2000.020409.x.
7. Beck A.T., Steer R.A., Ball R., Ranieri W.F. Comparison of Beck Depression Inventories-IA and-II in psychiatric outpatients. Journal of Personality Assessment 1996, 67:588-597. 10.1207/s15327752jpa6703_13.
8. Ben-Porath Y.S., Tellegen A. MMPI-2-RF: Manual for administration, scoring and interpretation 2008, University of Minnesota Press, USA.
9. Bentler P.M. On the fit of models to covariances and methodology to the bulletin. Psychological Bulletin 1992, 112:400-404. 10.1037//0033-2909.112.3.400.
10. Bentler P.M., Bonett D.G. Significance tests and goodness of fit in the analysis of covariance structures. Psychological Bulletin 1980, 88:588-606. 10.1037//0033-2909.88.3.588.
11. Birkas B., Csatho A., Gacs B., Bereczkei T. Nothing ventured nothing gained: Strong associations between reward sensitivity and two measures of Machiavellianism. Personality and Individual Differences 2015, 74:112-115. 10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.046.
12. Browne M.W., Cudeck R. Alternative ways of assessing model fit. Testing structural equation models 1993, 136-162. Sage, Beverly Hills, CA. K.A. Bollen, J.S. Long (Eds.).
13. Calvete E., Corral S. Machiavellianism: Dimensionality of the Mach IV and its relation to self-monitoring in a Spanish sample. The Spanish Journal of Psychology 2000, 3:3-13. 10.1017/s1138741600005497.
14. Caspi A., Houts R.M., Belsky D.W., Goldman-Mellor S.J., Harrington H., Israel S., Moffitt T.E. The p-factor: One general psychopathology factor in the structure of psychiatric disorders?. Clinical Psychological Science 2014, 2:119-137. 10.1177/2167702613497473.
15. Chapman L.J., Chapman J.P., Raulin M.L. Body-image aberration in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1978, 87:399-407. 10.1037/0021-843x.87.4.399.
16. Chen F.F. Sensitivity of goodness of fit indexes to lack of measurement invariance. Structural Equation Modeling 2007, 14:464-504. 10.1080/10705510701301834.
17. Christie R., Geis F. Studies in Machiavellianism 1970, Academic Press, New York, NY.
18. Christoffersen D., Stamp C. Examining the relationship between Machiavellianism and paranoia. Psychological Reports 1995, 76:67-70. 10.2466/pr0.1995.76.1.67.
19. Clark L.A., Watson D. Distress and fear disorders: an alternative empirically based taxonomy of the 'mood' and 'anxiety' disorders. The British Journal of Psychiatry 2006, 189:481-483. 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.03825.
20. Dahling J.J., Whitaker B.G., Levy P.E. The development and validation of a new Machiavellianism scale. Journal of Management 2009, 35:219-257. 10.1177/0149206308318618.
21. DePaulo B.M., Rosenthal R. Telling lies. Journal of Personality of Social Psychology 1979, 37(1713-1722):1713. 10.1037/0022-3514.37.10.
22. Eckblad M., Chapman L.J. Magical ideation as an indicator of schizotypy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1983, 51:215-225. 10.1037/0022-006x.51.2.215.
23. Fehr B., Samsom D., Paulhus D.L. The construct of Machiavellianism: Twenty years later. Advances in personality assessment 1992, 9:77-116. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. C.D. Spielberger, J.N. Butcher (Eds.).
24. Furnham A., Richards S., Rangel L., Jones D.N. Measuring malevolence: Quantitative issues surrounding the Dark Triad of personality. Personality and Individual Differences 2014, 67:114-121. 10.1016/j.paid.2014.02.001.
25. Geis F., Moon T.H. Machiavellianism and deception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1981, 41:766-775. 10.1037/0022-3514.41.4.766.
26. Gunnthorsdottir A., McCabe K., Smith V. Using the Machiavellianism instrument to predict trustworthiness in a bargaining game. Journal of Economic Psychology 2002, 23:49-66. 10.1016/s0167-4870(01)00067-8.
27. Hau K.T., Marsh H.W. The use of item parcels in structural equation modelling: Non-normal data and small sample sizes. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology 2004, 57:327-351. 10.1111/j.2044-8317.2004.tb00142.x.
28. Hu L., Bentler P.M. Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal 1999, 6:1-55. 10.1080/10705519909540118.
29. Jackson D.L. Revisiting sample size and number of parameter estimates: Some support for the n:q hypothesis. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal 2003, 10:128-141. 10.1207/S15328007SEM1001_6.
30. Jakobwitz S., Egan V. The dark triad and normal personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences 2006, 40:331-339. 10.1016/j.paid.2005.07.006.
31. Jones D.N., Paulhus D.L. Machiavellianism. Handbook of individual differences in social behavior 2009, 15:93-108. Guilford Press, New York, NY. M.R. Leary, R.H. Hoyle (Eds.).
32. Kerig P.K., Stellwagen K.K. Roles of callous-unemotional traits, narcissism, and Machiavellianism in childhood aggression. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 2010, 32:343-352. 10.1007/s10862-009-9168-7.
33. Kline R.B. Principles and practice of structural equation modeling 2011, Guilford Press, New York, NY.
34. Kline P., Cooper C. An investigation of the items in the Machiavellian scales. The Journal of Social Psychology 1984, 124:251-252. 10.1080/00224545.1984.9922855.
35. Kotov R., Ruggero C.J., Krueger R.F., Watson D., Yuan Q., Zimmerman M. New dimensions in the quantitative classification of mental illness. Archives of General Psychiatry 2011, 68:1003-1011. 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.107.
36. Kraut R.E., Price J.D. Machiavellianism in parents and their children. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1976, 33:782-786. 10.1037/0022-3514.33.6.782.
37. Krueger R.F., Markon K.E. Understanding psychopathology: Melding behavior genetics, personality, and quantitative psychology to develop an empirically based model. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2006, 15:113-117. 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2006.00418.x.
38. Lau K.S.L., Marsee M.A. Exploring Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism in youth: Examination of associations with antisocial behavior and aggression. Journal of Child and Family Studies 2013, 22:355-367. 10.1007/s10826-012-9586-0.
39. Little T.D. Longitudinal structural equation modeling 2009, Guilford Press, New York, NY.
40. Little T.D., Cunningham W.A., Shahar G., Widaman K.F. To parcel or not to parcel: Exploring the question, weighing the merits. Structural Equation Modeling 2002, 9:151-173. 10.1207/s15328007sem0902_1.
41. Loftus S.T., Glenwick D.S. Machiavellianism and empathy in an adolescent residential psychiatric population. Residential Treatment for Children & Youth 2001, 19:39-57. 10.1300/J007v19n02_04.
42. MacCallum R.C., Browne M.W., Sugawara H.M. Power analysis and determination of sample size for covariance structure modeling. Psychological Methods 1996, 1:130-149. 10.1037/1082-989x.1.2.130.
43. Machiavelli N. The Prince and the discourses. (L. Ricci, E. R. P. Vincent, C. E. Detmold, & M. Lerner, Trans.). 1950, Modern library New York, (Original work published 1513).
44. Marks I.M., Mathews A.M. Brief standard self-rating for phobic patients. Behaviour Research and Therapy 1979, 17:263-267. 10.1037/t11849-000.
45. McHoskey J.W. Machiavellianism and personality dysfunction. Personality and Individual Differences 2001, 31:791-798. 10.1016/s0191-8869(00)00187-2.
46. McHoskey J.W., Worzel W., Szyarto C. Machiavellianism and psychopathy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1998, 74:192-210. 10.1037/0022-3514.74.1.192.
47. McIlwain D. Bypassing empathy: A Machiavellian theory of mind and sneaky power. Individual differences in theory of mind: Implications for typical and atypical development 2003, 39-66. Psychology Press, New York, NY. B. Repacholi, V. Slaughter (Eds.).
48. Miller B.K., Smart D.L., Rechner P.L. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Machiavellian Personality Scale. Personality and Individual Differences 2015, 82:120-124. 10.1016/j.paid.2015.03.022.
49. Panitz E. Psychometric investigation of the Mach IV scale measuring Machiavellianism. Psychological Reports 1989, 64:963-968. 10.2466/pr0.1989.64.3.963.
50. Paulhus D.L., Williams K.M. The dark triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy. Journal of Research in Personality 2002, 36:556-563. 10.1016/s0092-6566(02)00505-6.
51. Rauthmann J.F. The dark triad and interpersonal perception: Similarities and differences in the social consequences of Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy. Social Psychological and Personality Science 2012, 3:487-496. 10.1177/1948550611427608.
52. Rauthmann J.F. Towards multifaceted Machiavellianism: Content, factorial, and construct validity of a German Machiavellianism scale. Personality and Individual Differences 2012, 52:345-351. 10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.038.
53. Rauthmann J.F. Investigating the MACH-IV with item response theory and proposing the Trimmed MACH*. Journal of Personality Assessment 2013, 95:388-397. 10.1080/00223891.2012.742905.
54. Rauthmann J.F., Will T. Proposing a multidimensional Machiavellianism conceptualization. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal 2011, 39:391-403. 10.2224/sbp.2011.39.3.391.
55. Rosseel Y. Lavaan: An R package for structural equation modeling. Journal of Statistical Software 2012, 48:1-36.
56. Sakalaki M., Richardson C., Thepaut Y. Machiavellianism and economic opportunism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 2007, 37:1181-1190. 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00208.x.
57. Shrout P.E., Fleiss J.L. Intraclass correlations: Uses in assessing rater reliability. Psychological Bulletin 1979, 86:420-428. 10.1037/0033-2909.86.2.420.
58. Shultz C.J. Situational and dispositional predictors of performance: A test of the hypothesized Machiavellianism structure interaction among sales persons. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 1993, 23:478-498. 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1993.tb01099.x.
59. Skinner N.F. Personality correlates of Machiavellianism: IV. Machiavellianism and psychopathology. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal 1982, 10:201-203. 10.2224/sbp.1982.10.2.201.
60. Spielberger C.D., Jacobs G., Crane R., Russell S., Westberry L., Barder L., Marks E. Preliminary manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory 1979, University of South Florida Human Resources Institute, Tampa, FL.
61. Stanford M.S., Mathias C.W., Dougherty D.M., Lake S.L., Anderson N.E., Patton J.H. Fifty years of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale: An update and review. Personality and Individual Differences 2009, 47:385-395. 10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.008.
62. Stead R., Cynthia F.G., Alexandra K., Kate M. Conceptualizing the Dark Triad of personality: Links to social symptomatology. Personality and Individual Differences 2012, 53:1023-1028. 10.1016/j.paid.2012.07.021.
63. Sutton J., Keogh E. Social competition in school: Relationships with bullying, Machiavellianism and personality. British Journal of Educational Psychology 2000, 70:443-456. 10.1348/000709900158227.
64. Szijjarto L., Bereczkei T. The Machiavellians "Cool Syndrome": They experience intensive feelings but have difficulties in expressing their emotions. Current Psychology 2014, 34:1-13. 10.1007/s12144-014-9262-1.
65. Tabachnick B.G., Fidell L.S. Using multivariate statistics (Fifth.) 2007, Pearson Education Inc., Boston, USA.
66. Vernon P.A., Villani V.C., Vickers L.C., Harris J.A. A behavioral genetic investigation of the Dark Triad and the Big 5. Personality and Individual Differences 2008, 44:445-452. 10.1016/j.paid.2007.09.007.
67. Wastell C., Booth A. Machiavellianism: An alexithymic perspective. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 2003, 22:730-744. 10.1521/jscp.22.6.730.22931.
68. Williams M.L., Hazleton V., Renshaw S. The measurement of Machiavellianism: A factor analytic and correlational study of Mach IV and Mach V. Speech Monographs 1975, 42:151-159. 10.1080/03637757509375889.
69. Wilson D.S., Near D.C., Miller R.R. Individual differences in Machiavellianism as a mix of cooperative and exploitative strategies. Evolution and Human Behavior 1998, 19:203-212. 10.1016/S1090-5138(98)00011-7.